Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 19 February 2026
413. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total annual population increase in each of the years 2022 to 2025; the number of residential housing completions in each corresponding year; and whether the Department has assessed the impact of net migration on housing demand projections to 2030. [13868/26]
View answerData in respect of estimated population figures are published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on an annual basis, to the year end April, at www.data.cso.ie/table/PEA25.
Data on New Dwelling Completions are published by the CSO on their website, on a quarterly basis, at www.data.cso.ie/table/NDQ05.
Delivering Homes, Building Communities seeks to significantly accelerate delivery of new homes by focusing on activating land and creating the optimal environment to encourage housing activity – including regulatory reform, tax incentives and the largest ever capital investment in the history of the State, with €275 billion invested in infrastructure over ten years through the National Development Plan. The Action Plan states that at least 300,000 homes must be delivered over its lifetime. The Government’s target is based on a realistic, broad assessment of the housing system, including factors such as migration.
Alongside this, the revised National Planning Framework (NPF) approved in April last year is a major step forward, and will help increase capacity and accelerate home building across the country.
The revised NPF sets out the need to plan for approximately 50,000 additional households per annum to 2040, and this reflects Government’s commitment to accelerated growth in new homes as our population changes and further grows.
As part of the broader body of work undertaken to inform the First Revision to the NPF, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) was engaged to provide updated population projections to 2040, based on demographic modelling, and having regard to the results of Census 2022 and fertility, mortality and migration trends. Under the baseline scenario, the research projects that the population of the State will increase to approximately 5.7 million people by 2030 and 6.1 million by 2040. This projection forms the central core trajectory of projected population growth and underpins the strategy set out in the First Revision to the NPF.
