Carol Nolan (Offaly, Independent)
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588. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to estimate the total number of housing units in the State at the end of each year from 2011 to date in 2025. [61098/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Official data in respect of total housing stock are published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in the Census. Data in respect of total housing stock in the 2011 Census can be found on the CSO website at: www.data.cso.ie/table/CD402, while data on total housing stock from Census 2016 and 2022 can be found at the following link: www.data.cso.ie/table/F2020.

Government is focussed on increasing the national housing stock and ensuring a suitable range of housing, across tenure types, is available to all. 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. Almost 150,000 new homes have been delivered since July 2020, with 92,300 of these delivered between 2022 and 2024 inclusive, exceeding the combined target for the period by 5,300 or so.

I am focused on continuing to bring forward measures that will continue to increase the supply of new homes across all tenures to make sure that everyone has a range of housing options available to them, whether they want to buy a house, rent one, or in need of social housing.