James Bannon (Fine Gael)

If she can find him, will the Leader invite the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Cullen, to the House to debate the failure of the Government's policy to ease inflation in the housing market? We saw in today's press that some €17.5 billion has been borrowed from lending agents by young couples trying to acquire a house of their own. This proves Government policy has failed. House prices have increased by 20% in the past 12 months. The housing strategy has failed. It is time to get cronyism and the Government's policy of looking after vested interests out of the way and to release more land on which to build houses.