Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There is an ongoing debate between Lorcan Sirr, a lecturer in housing, and the Department on the number of houses completed last year. The official figure is 15,000 based on ESB connections, but he argues that if one looks at building control management system completions, one gets perhaps half that number. Can the CIF give us an accurate figure? How many housing units were completed in 2016?