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

The Deputy mentioned the overall national figures.

If we look at 2023, just short of 12,000 social homes were delivered. Of those, 8,110 were new-build social homes. That was the highest number in 50 years. Mainly through the tenantin situprogramme, we purchased 1,830 new homes, ended HAP tenancies and insecure tenancies and converted them to social housing tenancies. We delivered 1,999 new homes through various leasing programmes. That is a 16% step up on the previous year so we are building year on year and I can confidently predict that this year, we will not only attain our social housing targets but exceed them. That is progress while recognising the fact that many challenges remain, number one being homelessness. At the end of quarter two, which is the last quarter I have full data on, we exited 630 households out of homelessness into safe and secure housing. We still need to do more and we need to accelerate that delivery. That is the challenge we have and I am confident we will do it.

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