Richard Boyd Barrett
Question:213. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social homes his Department expects to deliver over the next five years. [17820/26]
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My Department publishes the Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR), which 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 most recent publication was for Quarter 3 2025. All CSRs are available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/cb885-social-housing-construction-projects-status-reports/
The latest Construction Status Report shows that 13,064 social homes were onsite at the end of Q3 2025, with an additional 12,784 homes at design and tender stage – a cumulative total of 25,848 social homes at the design and construction stages. In total, the Construction Status Report provides details on 49,273 new-build social homes across 3,007 schemes.
Under the new housing plan, each local authority will prepare a Housing Delivery Action Plan (HDAP) setting out their planned delivery of social and affordable housing to 2030. The plans will align with targets set by the Department in order to ensure the 72,000 social homes will be delivered by 2030. My Department will be communicating with local authorities in this regard in Q1 2026. It should be noted that existing HDAPs run to the end of 2026 and it is expected that new HDAPs, which will run to 2030, will be in place by Q3/Q4 2026.
My Department also 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 Q3 2025 and is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/.
The Q4 2025 CSR and quarterly statistics are currently being collated and verified and will be published in due course. For reference the Q4 2024 CSR and statistics were published in April 2025.