Is it not a sad reflection on the lack of vision and commitment of this Government in the area of housing policy, that our capital city has one of the highest rates of homelessness in Europe? There are more people homeless in Dublin than in Birmingham, Manchester and Bradford combined. This is the legacy of the housing policy of this Minister and this Scrooge-like Government. Local authority lists will continue to grow as a result of the failure to substantially increase the allocation for various social housing and accommodation programmes. The inadequate allocations will ensure the Government will fail to reach its own inadequate targets for increases in the provision of social housing as outlined in the national development plan. It is another case of grandiose promises and announcements with no additional finance and a lack of vision and commitment to even reach their own low targets set in the plan.