The Housing Department released a breakdown of figures this week.
Image: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie Image: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL – IRELAND’S biggest local authority – built just 74 social homes last year, with 69 of them being rapid-build modular housing.As well as this, it bought 63 turnkey homes – built by contract by a private developer – and worked to regenerate another 127.
Taking into account all of the different building streams, as well as houses built and acquired by housing charities, the total number of social homes delivered in the Dublin area was 651. Before the figures were made available on Wednesday, there were exchanges in the Dáil between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and the Social Democrats’ Catherine Murphy during Leader’s Questions, in relation to social housing.
Varadkar responded that the government had ramped up its house-building significantly in recent years, and that he disagreed with Murphy about the “obsession about the different ways in which one categorises social housing as provided”.He said he had “seen the joy” on the faces of people when they received their new social home for the first time.
“No matter what you’re talking about, the numbers [of new homes] relative to the scale of the problem are low.
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