Eoin Ó Broin
Question:472. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of the delivery of an affordable purchase home in 2025. [51390/26]
View answerTuesday, 7 July 2026
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My Department publishes programme-level statistics on affordable housing delivery activity by local authorities and delivery partners in each local authority area. Data for the years 2022 up to Q4 2025 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/?#affordable-housing-delivery.
As included in the report, 935 affordable purchase homes were delivered by local authorities with the support of the Affordable Housing Fund (AHF) in 2025. This delivery incudes Part V affordable delivery and Land Development Agency/Local Authority partnership arrangements.
The AHF subsidy is available as a direct subvention on local authority housing development costs at rates of €50,000, €75,000, and €100,000 per affordable purchase unit depending on the density of housing units per hectare on the development, and its location (The higher rate of AHF subsidy of €150,000 per affordable unit applies to cost rental units only). 95% of the approved subsidy is met from Exchequer funds via the AHF scheme and the remaining 5% subsidy is paid by the local authority concerned from its own funds.
On this basis, the average cost to the Exchequer in respect of the 935 affordable purchase homes delivered in 2025 with AHF support was €67,284.