53.4% increase in new dwellings ‘most completions per quarter since 2011’

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe and Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien during a site visit to O’Devaney Gardens. (Brian Lawless/PA)

There was a 53.4% increase in new dwelling completions in the second quarter of the year, which is the most completions seen in any quarter since the series began in 2011, according to the Central Statistics Office.

There were 7,654 new dwellings recorded in the second quarter of 2022, which is up on the 4,990 new dwellings recorded last year and up 58.8% from Q2 of 2019, before the pandemic which resulted in the construction sector being restricted in its activity.