John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new builds by approved housing bodies in 2024; the number expected in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24835/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Government is committed to working with all stakeholders to deliver social, affordable and cost rental homes at scale. This is demonstrated by the record level of investment being provided for the delivery of Housing in 2025, with capital funding available of €6.8 billion. This is supplemented by a further €1.65 billion in current funding.

My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs). This data is available to the end of Q4 2024, and is published on my Department’s website.

Details of social housing developments at various stages of design and construction are available in the Construction Status Report published by my Department on a quarterly basis. The most recent publication was for Q 4 2024.

Last November, the Government approved new national housing targets up to 2030. 303,000 are expected to be delivered from 2025 to 2030, an annual average of 50,500 homes, building up to 60,000 in 2030. The revised targets were informed by research and modelling by the ESRI on population projections and long-run housing demand.

Social Housing Delivery for AHBs in 2024 was 3,914 including 3,039 new-build homes plus 875 homes through AHB Part V.

Shay Brennan (Dublin Rathdown, Fianna Fail)
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28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the progress made by the Land Development Agency to date in advancing affordable and social housing delivery; the pipeline now in place for further developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24726/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The Land Development Agency is a key partner in the Government’s delivery of affordable and social homes. To ensure the delivery of homes, the LDA deploys two main approaches. Firstly, it secures housing delivery on lands sourced from State bodies, in partnership with local authorities or on lands purchased by the LDA. Secondly, it acts through the Project Tosaigh initiative, whereby new housing is unlocked by LDA partnerships with homebuilders.

Government places a high priority on the use of public land to support housing delivery and has agreed to transfer 37 sites to the LDA. Two of those have housing currently under construction, over 480 homes, with first homes expected later this year. A further seven are at various stages of planning and tendering, with the collective potential to deliver over 5,600 homes.

The LDA are also delivering housing in partnership with local authorities, such as in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown at Shanganagh where more than 280 affordable and social homes were delivered in 2024 and which was the largest public housing site in decades.

It is also activating stalled private, planning-consented developments through Project Tosaigh, its market engagement and partnership initiative. Via Project Tosaigh, the LDA delivered its first homes in 2022, and is targeting the delivery of 8,000 affordable purchase, cost rental and social homes sourced under the initiative by 2028.