Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 November 2025
22. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the supply line for social homes; the number which are currently at various stages of design and construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65635/25]
View answer55. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update of social housing output to-date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65486/25]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 22 and 55 together.
The Government is committed to increasing social housing delivery and the focus of the social housing programme is on increasing the number of new-build homes.
My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis on social and affordable housing delivery activity by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) in each local authority. This data is available to the end of Q2 2025 and is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website (www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/).
These figures show that from the beginning of 2020 to the end of Q2 2025, over 35,000 new homes have been delivered under social housing build programmes.
In the first six months of 2025, 1,804 new build social homes were delivered. This is an increase of almost 54% on the same period in 2024 (1,174).
In Q1 and Q2 2025, 320 social housing acquisitions were delivered and a further 270 homes were delivered under leasing. In total, 2,394 new social homes were delivered in Q1 and Q2 2025.
There is a strong pipeline in place that will ensure further significant delivery of social homes. The latest Social Housing Construction Status Report shows that 26,684 social homes were at various stages of design and construction at the end of June 2025, with 11,557 social homes onsite and an additional 15,127 homes at design and tender stage.
The Construction Status Report provides details of social housing developments and their location that have been completed, are under construction or are progressing through the various stages of the design and tender processes. The current and previous versions of the CSR are published on my Department’s website (www.gov.ie/en/collection/cb885-social-housing-construction-projects-status-reports/). A version of the CSR file can also be downloaded for analysis by local authority, location etc. on Open Data (https://opendata.housing.gov.ie/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q2-2025).
Data for Q3 is currently being compiled.
