No new social homes for Cork City and county in first three months of year

Just 158 new social homes built across the country

Sinn Féin TD Thomas Gould hit out at the Government's 'complete overreliance on the private rental sector'. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

No new social homes were delivered across Cork City and county in the first three months of the year, new figures show.

The latest figures from the Department of Housing show that neither Cork City Council nor Cork County Council completed any social housing projects in the first quarter of the year. This includes the fact there were no social houses built by affordable housing bodies or acquired through Part V planning rules in the same period.