Few issues demonstrate the failures of this Government and its immediate predecessor more than housing. The Minister of State, Deputy Noel Ahern, knows as well as I do that it is simply not possible for young people in the part of Dublin we come from to buy houses there when they leave the family home. If two young people are not earning in excess of €50,000 between them, they will not be able to afford the vast majority of houses in the north-east of the city, including the constituency I used to represent in the other House. In such circumstances, young people are obliged to go to counties Meath, Kildare or Westmeath, or further afield, for a few years at least.