Labour Party wants State as the 'direct provider' of 50,000 new homes per year

For 2026 the party wants to deliver 12,000 new social homes, 4,000 cost rental homes, 4,000 affordable homes and 25,000 private houses

Ivana Bacik (left) and Deputy Duncan Smith (right) at Leinster House this week. Ms Bacik said the 'government plans have been reliant far too extensively on private sector delivery' of housing. Photo: Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie

Reforming the Land Development Agency into a state construction company would allow for house prices to fall and increase the number homes being built, Labour leader Ivana Bacik has said.

Ms Bacik launched the party's new housing policy, simply known as Build More Homes, at its first press event of the campaign in Dublin. Her party has pledged to work towards building an average of 50,000 homes per year up to 2030.