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€400m first home scheme to be extended to self-builders

Broadening of scheme means self-building homeowners can claim up to 30 per cent of the total build cost

Christmas deadline for controversial planning bill ‘ambitious’

Oireachtas Housing Committee chair Steven Matthews says radical overhaul of planning system needs more time to get it right

In this week’s Business Post: politicians and officials split over tax breaks for landlords

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A house divided: politicians and officials split over tax breaks for landlords

The Minister for Housing say tax cuts for owners of rental properties are necessary to keep them in the market, but he faces opposition

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Editorial: Desperate times call for desperate measures in budget to address housing crisis

The government is planning to introduce a hefty tax cut for small landlords and a ‘backstop’ mechanism which would involve the state buying unsold apartments and using them for cost rental housing

Landmark planning legislation to be brought to Dáil ‘in the coming weeks’

The bill, which is expected to be the third largest piece of legislation in the state’s history, will improve transparency, the housing minister says

‘Serious issues’ must be addressed in wake of fatal Youghal Ironman, O’Brien says

Minister for Housing voiced his concerns that event went ahead, despite warnings from Triathlon Ireland

O’Brien promises significant changes in Budget 2024 to help “good landlords”

The Minister for Housing said the government will make “significant and effective” changes in the upcoming budget to help small landlords

New building rules to reduce cost of student accommodation - ministers

Rents at new, purpose-built student accommodation blocks currently €1,800 per month

Revealed: ‘Potential financial issues’ discovered at Peter McVerry Trust

The Department of Housing has been alerted and said it understands that an independent auditor has been appointed to the charity

Vacant buildings used to house refugees to be exempt from planning permission for five years

Minister warned it would not be worth state’s while to convert accommodation for original two-year term

Glass Bottle consortium was ‘anxious’ to buy Nama’s stake in Poolbeg site

Opposition parties had called on Nama to transfer its investment to the local authority

Eoin Ó Broin: Government must pick up the pieces of smashed Irish Glass Bottle scheme

Nama’s sale of its 20 per cent stake in the Poolbeg SDZ has put paid to the affordable homes required in the scheme, so the state must buy the homes and suck up the difference

Coveney says ‘time is right’ to convert unused offices for housing

Minister for Enterprise agrees to set up inter-departmental group following lobbying from housing minister Darragh O’Brien

Funding measures for homes with ‘extreme’ fire safety defects to be announced within months

Darragh O’Brien has said that any works carried out before the scheme is in place will be covered by it

Cost rental housing a ‘huge assist’ to social integration

Housing Finance Agency chief says mixed tenure developments are ‘the way we should be living our life’

Housing minister: ‘I’m not looking’ for a Vat reduction for the construction sector

Darragh O’Brien said it was “always more difficult” to track the impact of Vat reductions on buyers

Minister Darragh O’Brien to underwrite Irish Glass Bottle site apartments by €200,000 per unit

Developers to be able to apply for funding to help reduce cost of homes

Minister for Housing unveils €750m cost rental scheme

The project, which aims to deliver more than 4,000 houses in four years, could see builders earn up to €200,000 per unit built

Mica engineers can’t get insurance cover for work on €3bn redress scheme

Engineers warn of reluctance to assess damaged houses because insurers won’t offer professional indemnity when mica or pyrite are involved