Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 6 May 2026
498. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the annual housing delivery targets currently in place, broken down by tenure including private, social, affordable purchase and cost rental; the methodology used to determine these targets having regard to projected population growth and housing demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32043/26]
Amharc ar fhreagra500. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number and proportion of homes expected to be delivered annually under current policy that will be social housing, affordable purchase and cost rental; whether specific targets have been set for the share of such housing within overall supply in the coming years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32045/26]
Amharc ar fhreagraI propose to take Questions Nos. 498 and 500 together.
Under Delivering Homes, Building Communities 2025-2030, the Government is targeting the delivery of 300,000 new homes by 2030, including 72,000 social homes, and under the Starter Homes Programme, 90,000 affordable housing supports.
There is no upper limit to the amount of housing that Government wants to see delivered over the lifetime of the Plan. In July 2025, I issued Guidelines instructing local authorities to update housing targets in line with the revised National Planning Framework (NPF) which will help increase capacity and accelerate home building across the country. The new Guidelines set out the need to plan for approximately 55,000 additional households per annum on average to 2040, enabling zoning for a total of 83,000 units per annum.
With regard to social and affordable housing, Delivering Homes, Building Communities aims to deliver an average of 12,000 social homes and 15,000 affordable housing supports under the Starter Homes Programme annually to 2030.
To achieve this, all local authorities will shortly commence preparing their Housing Delivery Action Plans (HDAPs), for review by my Department, setting out their planned delivery of social and affordable housing to 2030. The preparation of HDAPs will be undertaken by local authorities in collaboration with their delivery partners, including the Land Development Agency, Approved Housing Bodies, and the development sector.
Existing HDAPs run to the end of 2026 and are currently published on individual local authority websites. It is expected that new HDAPs, which will run to 2030, will be in place by the end of the year and will also be published by each individual local authority once finalised.
