Ireland's housing league table: Check if your area met target for new social homes

The Government plans to keep a league table of how the 31 local authorities are performing on the delivery of social housing.

Minister for Housing James Browne has proposed regular publication of data on the performance of councils in constructing social housing on local authority land, especially on the delivery of “own-build” homes.

Social homes are delivered in a number of ways under the Housing for All programme: self-build by the council; buying homes in turnkey conditions; acquiring them from non-profit approved housing agencies; or having them transferred from developers under Part V of the Planning Act.

In terms of overall provision, including all modes of delivering social houses, the best performers between 2022 and 2024 were Laois (189 per cent of target), Meath (169 per cent) and Wicklow (142 per cent).

The local authorities with the lowest figures compared to target were Dublin City Council (49 per cent) and Donegal County Council (46 per cent).

The figures also show local councils met just 18 per cent of their targets for building their own social housing between 2022 and 2024.

A little over 5,000 social homes were built by councils between 2022 and 2024 – compared to a target of 27,400.

Three local authorities met less than 10 per cent of the target – Cork County, Kildare and Louth.

Mr Browne is expected to tell Cabinet colleagues that releasing the data in this format will make the performances of councils in delivering social homes more transparent and more accountable.