Up to 1,600 applications have been received for the Croí Conaithe vacant property grant scheme, according to the Minister for Housing.

The Irish Examiner understands the minister will bring a memo to Cabinet with three key changes to accelerate tackling the housing crisis

Last week, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said Ireland is short of 250,000 homes, which is contributing to inflated house prices and rents

Cork Simon welcomed the figures but said the numbers are small compared with the number of people in emergency accommodation and in receipt of notices to quit 

Not a single local authority across the country has applied for extra vacancy officers, which suggests a “breakdown in communications”, according to Cork East TD David Stanton

'It's some trajectory, to go from no homeless families in 2012, to where we now find ourselves in 2023'

Sinn Féin's Eoin O Broin said the covid shutdowns to construction could explain part of the underspend, but that it has continued into 2023

Homelessness campaigner Fr Peter McVerry has refused to back down on his assertion that Darragh O’Brien wanted to extend the eviction ban but was overruled by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar

The biggest fall in house prices in a decade was always likely to attract headlines, and so it proved when the findings of the latest daft.ie report were published

Among these is a new regime that would see tenants given first refusal if the landlord wants to sell the home they are living in

Junior minister Kieran O’Donnell was responding in the Dáil when Cork East TD David Stanton said he was 'amazed' the local authority had not applied for the funding

Charities warn lifting of the ban will make 'a bad situation worse'

With the Coalition leaders set to meet on Monday evening, they have been advised by officials that taxation measures should be considered for small landlords if the eviction ban is extended

Ordinarily, planning applications should be decided upon within 18 weeks, but now An Bord Pleanála had 2,676 planning applications outstanding

Pádraig Hoare struggles to find a government department willing to take responsibility for a firm line on policing illegal burning of gorse

Department denies ministers gave incorrect information to Oireachtas about disturbance of bat habitat during mansion refurbishment

The Government’s housing targets could become more and more unachievable if the very workers needed to build them are forced to leave the country

A number of politicians are angry,  after Government approved the priority drafting of a Bill that would obligate short-term letting properties to be registered with Fáilte Ireland before they are rented out

Homeless figures hit another new record, with 11,542 people in emergency homeless accommodation in November.

'We believe the ability for locals to form groups to engage in the process completely is essential to the integrity of the process.' 

'The deluded dreams of billionaires aside, there is no Planet B', he said in his opening remarks on the climate and nature crisis.

Housing minister treated Oireachtas committee with 'utter contempt', claims Sinn Féin's Ó Broin

The failure of three of the four councils in Dublin — where the housing problem is most acute — to build any new homes has been severely criticised

The fund injection comes on top of the €110m announced for the project last year

We are losing our youth, our future, because of the failure to provide the basic human need of a home

In Cork City, it is taking an average of 75 weeks to re-let a home, more than double the national average of 34 weeks

Charities call for immediate Government action to address 'alarming' homelessness figures

What is involved in the scheme, and what is hampering its rollout?

Any person who has had a valid ‘no fault’ notice of termination served, will not have their tenancy terminated during the winter emergency period.

The planning board has been under intense pressure for the past six months after a series of allegations of potential conflicts of interest were made against Mr Hyde

Mahon in Cork, along with Thurles and Cavan Town, are earmarked for new housing for people fleeing Russia's war on Ukraine

Many are also facing bills of between €20,000 and €70,000 for remediation of their Celtic Tiger-era defective buildings

New focus on 'out-of-season' swimming and managing sea swimming during winter

Tenancy rules on housing standards and lack of tradespeople are preventing offers of accommodation being taken up

Department says 'vast majority' of short-term lets are offered without permission but the new law to curb this comes into effect next month

An Bord Pleanála has been in the spotlight since its deputy chairman Paul Hyde stepped back from his duties on a “strictly without prejudice” basis

Just 2.5 hours are allocated to debate nearly 50 pages of new amendments which have been added to the original 18-page bill

The latest monthly report issued by the Department of Housing shows 3,028 children in total are homeless

57 families presented newly to homeless services in Waterford, Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny and Tipperary in the first three months of 2022

109 children homeless in the Mid-West as  region has highest proportion of homelessness outside Dublin

Clare, Tipperary, Limerick, and Sligo are revealed to have been affected too, so the cost of redress may surge well past €2.2bn

The Taoiseach has said crisis measures such as tented accommodation at the Gormanston camp in Meath may be needed in the coming weeks

Concerns have been raised about sex for rent arrangements being offered to vulnerable Ukrainian refugees

The 'Irish Examiner' discovered a property in Co Clare being offered for free to a 'slim Ukrainian' woman, with an expectation of sex