Eleven local authorities failed to deliver a single new-build home in first half of 2022

Sinn Féin housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin said Ireland was 'too over-reliant' on turnkey and Part V homes. File picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Almost a decade after the Government declared housing an 'emergency', local authorities all over Ireland are still failing to produce any direct-build social homes despite record funding being allocated to tackle the crisis. 

It has emerged that 11 local authorities, including three in Dublin, failed to deliver a single new-build house in the first six months of this year, with just 647 homes directly built as the State’s housing emergency worsened.