Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Figures from Department of Housing include 4,775 homeless children

Top civil servant Graham Doyle says he opposed term and not proposed role

Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers insists plans to appoint head of Housing Activation Office will go ahead

Glovers Court flats to be turned into 53 new homes by council when queries from Department of Housing are resolved

Local authority says it has 11 ‘void’ units in Cherry Orchard as locals speak of being ‘terrorised’ by antisocial behaviour

Rent for the one-bedroom apartments will be €1,326 per month, while the two-bedroom units are €1,478 per month

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Data refused due to commercial sensitivity with department saying it would be cumbersome to provide

Slight rise in homes finished in first three months of year compared to 2024, but annual figures show 4.2% fall

Kerry has most blue flags with 15, while Cork has most green coast awards with 14

Homelessness prevention measures and access to long-term housing should be prioritised in strategy, Minister told

Councils need to return to doing what they did well for decades: build houses

Emma Blain wrote to James Browne three times seeking meeting about tenant-in-situ scheme

Government to pursue number of strategies to increase planning capacity across the State, including encouraging senior planners to return from abroad

Costs of new apartments ‘very challenging’, Dublin City Council says

Within weeks An Bord Pleánala will become An Coimisiún Pleanála - but what impact will it have and how is it changing?

Housing gets enormous amounts of money and endless new initiatives. But it has never had an alignment of power and responsibility

€1bn allocation did not provide any further funding, utility‘s chair told former minister

We call housing a ‘crisis’ but don’t deal with it that way

Eddie Byrne warns of complications tied to reference rent system

Hundreds of thousands of names on Ireland’s electoral registers should not be there, An Coimisiún Toghcháin warns

Housing Activation Office intended to speed up housing by bringing in local authorities, developers and utilities

Most applications for the vacant property refurbishment grant were received in Donegal, Cork and Mayo

Emergency accommodation users up by 11.2 per cent over 12 months to end of March, official figures show

Number of homes in Dublin’s Pearse House would have been reduced to give residents more space but department has refused to fund project

Shortfall of more than 2,300 homes on 12,930 goal, though affordable homes beat estimates in some measures

Refusal to fund council’s regeneration plan as initiative would reduce the number of units in complexes

Regulations creating new register for short-term lets could come into effect in 2026

Company notices of commencement to build decline to 2016 point

Internal Department of Housing report set out 10 selected 2024 forecasts, with all but two below 40,000

Tourism sector critical to jobs and economic growth in many rural regions, department notes

ESB networks to improve surveying, hazard removal and forestry management

Young woman’s landlord recently informed her of his intention to sell Artane apartment

One thing that’s certainly true: you should question everything you think is fact about the shortage of housing

Numbers moving under Our Living Islands scheme to places like Arranmore is less than expected

As ordinary people continue to bear the brunt of the State’s dire housing shortage, we examine the reasons for the crisis and look at possible solutions

The chasm between rhetorical commitments and the grim and apparently unchanging reality is dispiriting

Just seven contracts with developers have been signed so far for the delivery of 870 apartments

Limerick City and County Council has more derelict sites listed than all four local authorities in Dublin combined

Irish Real Estate Pavilion features at annual MIPIM property event for first time