Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Ciarán Nugent:
It is the main one. It is a complex picture but supply is the main one. Germany has a population of over 82 million. If you look back to documents in 2015 and 2016 about targets for 50,000 by 2020 and stuff like that, we have undershot all of those targets for a decade. It is complex but we have obviously had a population increase in the last couple of years as well. However, that issue is a minor part if we assume we had hit targets by 2019 that we set in 2015 and then continued growing on that basis to build more houses every year instead of house builds falling last year. Supply is the main issue.
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