Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 March 2025
470. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new build homes to include both apartments and houses, both private and social housing, constructed in 2022, 2023 & 2024, in Greystones, Delgany, Kilcoole, Newcastle, Newtownmountkennedy & Roundwood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14094/25]
Amharc ar fhreagraHousing for All is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes. Budget 2025 provided Exchequer funding be of €4.85bn to support housing programmes, comprising €3.2bn capital funding and €1.65bn current funding. The Exchequer Capital provision of €3.2bn will be supplemented by Land Development Agency (LDA) investment (projected up to €1.25bn) and Housing Finance Agency (HFA) lending (projected €1.65bn), resulting in an overall capital provision of over €6bn.
Housing completions data are published by the CSO on a quarterly basis and are available on its website at: www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ndc/newdwellingcompletionsq42024/data/
Completions disaggregated by dwelling type (scheme house, single house, apartment) are available at local authority level at data.cso.ie/table/NDQ06. Completions are also available at local electoral area at data.cso.ie/table/NDQ09. Data on new dwelling completions in towns and village level is not available on the CSO website.
Increasing the supply of new homes is key to addressing many of the challenges in the housing market.
Supply has increased significantly in recent years, with some 125,000 new homes delivered since July 2020. This includes 92,500 homes delivered from 2022 to 2024, exceeding the combined target for new homes for the period by 5,500 or so homes.
This progress is mirrored across the country, some 4,324 new homes completed in Wicklow over the three-year period, including 1,538, 1,428 and 1,358 in 2022, 2023 and 2024 respectively.
My Department also publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) in each local authority. This data is available to the end of Q3 2024, 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/
My Department also publishes the Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR). The CSR 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 2024. All Construction Status Reports are available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/cb885-social-housing-construction-projects-status-reports/
A version of the CSR file can also be downloaded for analysis of completions, locations, approvals stage etc at the link below: opendata.housing.gov.ie/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q3-2024
Data for Q4 2024 is currently being collated and will be published in due course.
