O'Brien admits 40,000 new homes needed to meet demand

Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien: 'We won't be happy until we're getting to at least 33,000 [housing completions] a year. But to meet unmet demand, we do need to be getting to that 40,000 figure.'

The Government's Housing For All plan is "always under review", the Housing Minister said, but acknowledged that to meet demand 40,000 new homes would need to be built.

Darragh O'Brien was responding to questions on whether the plan — launched in 2021 — was based on faulty assumptions that Ireland would need 33,000 new homes built per year, rather than more than 40,000 as projected by the Department of Housing.