Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Earlier there was reference to the 19,000 units of social housing that are in the construction report as being in the pipeline. While looking at it earlier, there were just a few things that came up, and I will refer to a few examples that I found in the report. Of the 19,000, there were 18 homes in Laois on site since quarter 4 of 2018. In Waterford, 24 homes have been at stage 1 approval since quarter 1 of 2018 and have never been progressed to preplanning or cost check. There are 37 homes in Boyce's Street, Cork, that have had full planning design prepared since quarter 1 in 2018. In Galway there are 13 homes with full design preparations since quarter 4 of 2018. The report gives a figure of 19,000. The homes I refer to have been in the report now for five years, or four years if we take the 2022 figures. Are these homes going to be the in same report next year and the year after or will other homes reappear? The Department refers to a pipeline of 19,000 homes but when will they be delivered? This is only a sample from the report.