Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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650. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if her Department has conducted research into the impact of housing unaffordability on young adults and families, including rates of emigration, household formation delay, and reduced fertility rates; and if she will commission an interdepartmental report on the social consequences of ongoing unaffordability. [47954/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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My Department, as part of our internal Housing Economics Research Programme and as part of our joint research programme with the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), have published a number of research papers on the topics of housing costs and affordability.

Housing Economics Research Papers published by my Department and in our joint research programme with the ESRI are available on our website at www.gov.ie/en/department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage/collections/housing-economics-research-publications/

The ESRI has recently published a paper that examined the At Risk of Poverty Rates both before and after housing costs on a number of different factors including household type, housing tenure and children in household and age of youngest child. This research is part of their partnership with Community Foundation Ireland and is not part of the ESRI's programme with my Department.