Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on measures undertaken to date, to enable the private sector to deliver more homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53818/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The Programme for Government commits to building on the successes of Housing for All and ramping up supply to deliver over 300,000 homes between 2025 and 2030.

Supply has increased significantly in recent years, with 140,000 new homes delivered since July 2020. Some 92,400 of these were delivered between 2022 and 2024 inclusive, exceeding the combined target for the period by 5,400 or so.

Government is focused on continuing to bring forward measures that will build on this and increase the supply of new homes further. The recently revised National Planning Framework is a major step forward in this regard, and will help increase capacity and accelerate home building across the country, while the new Housing Activation Office will work to address barriers to the delivery of infrastructure projects needed to enable housing development.

The new Planning Design Standards for Apartments will allow greater flexibility vis-à-vis the size and mix of apartment types to help increase apartment viability, facilitate increased supply, and address affordability challenges.

The Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2025 will deal with expiring planning permissions and encourage activation of housing.

The next call for expressions of interest under the Croí Cónaithe Cities scheme has been issued – the scheme will help activate the thousands of planning permissions for apartments in our cities.

Further measures to continue enabling supply will be considered in the context of the new national housing plan.