Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The targets under Housing for All are set out year on year. They were set based on very detailed research and input from the sector. It is about building the capacity within the sector to deliver the homes that we need, doing things better and having more people in construction to build the homes we need. We have had about ten to 12 years of significant under-delivery across all tenures but if we look at 2020 and 2021, in those years there were just over 20,000 new builds. Obviously, that was impacted by Covid and two construction shutdowns. I would expect we will substantially exceed our overall Housing for All target of 24,600 for this year and we will have CSO figures very shortly in that regard. We need to ramp that up. These are baseline targets. Last year, 2022, we had a target of 24,600 and I would expect us to exceed that quite substantially. This year the target is 29,000 and I want to exceed that too. I will come back in my supplementary reply with regard to the Housing Commission.

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