Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the recent Housing Commission report and to outline if a working group will be established to facilitate the implementation of the report. [4559/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The Housing Commission was established to consider housing policy post-2030 and to make proposals building on Housing for All.

My Department is currently assessing the Report of the Housing Commission, which was published by Government in May last year. The assessment is complex given the breadth of housing policy areas covered in the Report, the quantum of recommendations and actions involved, and the complex interlinkages between them. It is looking at prioritisation, cost implications, sequencing, timing and the practicalities of implementation. The assessment is being supported by an ongoing analysis of priority recommendations by the Housing Agency and follow up engagements with the Housing Commission.

The assessment will inform actions to significantly ‘scale-up’ delivery in the short-term. It will also inform longer term actions toward securing a sustainable model to meet the enormous challenge of delivering 60,000 homes per year by 2030 and establish a platform from which housing supply can be increased thereafter to meet the need arising in the longer-term.

This work will be reflected in the new national housing plan, to follow Housing for All, as committed to in the Programme for Government.

That said, recommendations from the Housing Commission Report have already been reflected in the Programme for Government, and I will be working with my Department and other Departments to implement them.