Housing

Councils who built no homes ‘must do a lot more’ – Minister

O’Brien’s department fell short of its social housing targets last year, with 10,263 homes built, leased or bought compared to the target of 11,820

Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien: Says councils must build more homes

Darragh O’Brien, the Minister for Housing, has urged the councils who only managed to build two public houses last year to “do a lot more”.

His department fell short of its social housing targets last year, with 10,263 homes built, leased or bought compared to the target of 11,820.

Most of the country’s 31 councils ramped up their output but Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown county council and Roscommon county council only managed to directly build two homes ...