Ryan O'Meara (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail)
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94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which Delivering Homes, Building Communities will support the provision of modular homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65689/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Delivering Homes, Building Communities, published 13 November 2025, is Ireland’s new national housing plan. It is a wide-ranging action plan focused on housing supply and targeting homelessness.

Pillar 1 focuses on activating the supply of 300,000 homes. Increasing the adoption of Modern Methods of Construction, including modular homes, will be critical to achieving this aim. Other action to be taken includes increasing the skills in the residential construction sector, activating more land, providing more housing-related infrastructure, securing more development finance for home building, addressing viability challenges particularly those seen in apartment delivery and working toward ending dereliction and vacancy.

The updated National Development Plan secured investment of almost €20 billion in building new social and affordable homes. My Department will ensure that the weight of the State’s significant spending power is put firmly behind leaner, more efficient, faster supply by introducing a new target for the use of MMC in at least 25% of all new build social and affordable housing. This will mean a pipeline of thousands of homes that will be built using MMC over the lifetime of the Plan. It will provide significant opportunities for those in the building sector to invest in innovation, supporting the delivery of more modular homes.

In order to directly support the use of modular or 3D volumetric methods, my Department is providing funding and support for pathfinder projects. Limerick City and County Council and the Mayor’s Office will advance the initial phase of their SMART (Short-term Modular Affordable Rental Transition) Modular Housing Project and Wexford County Council is being supported to commence a project at a site in Cluain Fada, New Ross, to develop 22 permanent social homes utilising 3D volumetric systems. These will help to explore the potential for these innovative systems and facilitate the sharing of best practice across the social and affordable housing delivery partners.