Catherine Noone (Fine Gael)

I express my support for the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, who is in negotiations or talks with NAMA to try to get it to allocate some of its stock to social housing. That should be a key priority for NAMA and it is absurd that it is not. The housing list had 58,000 people on it in 2008 and it currently has 100,000 people on it. No doubt many of those individuals were helped along the way by bankers, developers and, it has to be said, some of our colleagues in Fianna Fáil. I say that with the greatest respect to Senator Norris, with whom I agree that we should not be seeking to score political points. There is a difference, however, between making political points and helping colleagues with their delusions, and the fact is that many people were helped onto the housing list by Fianna Fáil as well. That has to be said.