Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes built in the State in each of the past five years and to date in 2025. [53285/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The Government is committed to increasing social housing delivery and the focus of the social housing programme is on increasing the number of new-build homes.

From the beginning of 2020 to the end of Q1 2025, 34,027 new homes have been delivered under social housing build programmes. This included delivery in 2023 and 2024 at levels not seen since the 1970s.

Social housing build delivery for the period in question is as follows:

• 5,064 homes in 2020

• 5,202 homes in 2021

• 7,433 homes in 2022

• 8,110 homes in 2023

• 7,860 homes in 2024

• 358 homes in Q1 2025

My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis on social and affordable housing delivery activity by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) in each local authority. This data is available to the end of Q1 2025 and is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/. Data for Q2 2025 is currently being collated and will be published shortly.

My Department also publishes the Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR), which provides details of social housing developments and their location that have been completed, are under construction or are progressing through the various stages of the design and tender processes. The most recent publication was for Quarter 1 2025 and it shows that a total of 25,457 social homes were at all stages of design and build at the end of Q1 2025. All CSRs are available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/cb885-social-housing-construction-projects-status-reports/.

A version of the CSR file can also be downloaded for analysis by local authority, location etc. at this link: . The Q2 2025 Construction Status Report is currently being compiled.