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Housing

GE2024FactCheck

FactCheck: Four claims from last night's General Election housing debate

12 Nov 2024

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GE2024Housing

Affordable homes, homelessness and help-to-buy concerns feature in first TV election debate

Updated 11 Nov 2024

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GE2024Housing

Help-to-Buy? What experts are saying about the contentious housing schemes

Updated 11 Nov 2024

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Donohoe responds to Eoghan Murphy's claims his housing plans were derailed by senior figures

11 Nov 2024

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GE2024Housing

Help-to-buy grant and Rent Tax Credit to get a boost under Fine Gael's housing plans

The party wants to roll out cost-rental for frontline workers.

Christina Finn

Updated 11 Nov 2024

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FactCheck

FactCheck: Has work begun on nearly 60,000 new homes in the last 12 months?

10 Nov 2024

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Housing

Sinn Féin says Fianna Fáil's plan to boost the Renters' Tax Credit is 'reckless'

8 Nov 2024

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GE2024FF MANIFESTO

Fianna Fáil pledges to 'at a minimum' double the Renters' Tax Credit in the next government

Under Fianna Fáil’s plans, the tax credit could be boosted to at least €2,000.

Christina Finn

8 Nov 2024

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Eoghan Murphy

Former housing minister Eoghan Murphy says he wanted to resign when homeless figure hit 10,000

6 Nov 2024

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Housing

Housing minister eyes widening First Home Scheme to secondhands as politicians set out election stalls

5 Nov 2024

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Housing

Coalition leaders agree target of 303,000 new homes between 2025 and 2030

4 Nov 2024

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ge2024

Green's manifesto proposes Help-to-Buy expansion to renters who want to buy home from their landlord

3 Nov 2024

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Coalition tensions

'Cop on a bit': Martin hits back at unattributed briefings from FG that he's 'tetchy and grumpy'

Updated 3 Nov 2024

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Watchdog report

Estate agent sanctioned for charging house hunters €2,000 'priority deposit'

1 Nov 2024

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Report

80,000 workers needed to address 'significant' shortfalls in four key areas of infrastructure

30 Oct 2024

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Housing

Harris says housing delivery figure for this year will be 'well upwards towards 40,000'

25 Oct 2024

8.8k

Housing Crisis

Homelessness: Record 14,760 in emergency accommodation, including 4,561 children

25 Oct 2024

11.9k

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Red lines

Harris says he won't go into Govt with a party that wants to scrap Help-to-Buy and First Home schemes

22 Oct 2024

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Housing Crisis

Only 33 rentals available through HAP across 16 local authority areas

Updated 22 Oct 2024

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Oireachtas Housing Commitee

Regulator to pursue 1,500 HAP landlords who have not registered tenancies

15 Oct 2024

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Analysis

Extension of mortgage relief shows Ireland's housing spending increasingly based on vibes

Look at many of the government’s housing policies, and a similar pattern emerges.

Paul O'Donoghue

13 Oct 2024

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Planning and Development Bill

Dáil passes long-promised bill set to make major changes to planning systems

Updated 9 Oct 2024

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Policy Matters

Interview: Simon Harris won't 'compare and contrast' Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael on housing

5 Oct 2024

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FactCheck

FactCheck: Is Ireland now 'the top country in Europe' when it comes to building new homes?

3 Oct 2024

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housing and homelessness

What about housing? Giveaway budget could have done more to address crisis - charities

1 Oct 2024

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FactCheck

FactCheck: Why are so many people presenting as homeless in Dublin?

30 Sep 2024

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OPW

Cost of modular homes for Ukrainian refugees double to €436k per unit

30 Sep 2024

51.9k

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Daft Report

Second-hand market supercharges house price rises that are up by 6.2% in the last year

30 Sep 2024

9.9k

The Morning Lead

The Taoiseach said asylum seekers are driving up homeless figures: experts say it's far more complicated

Yesterday marked the eighth consecutive month of record homeless figures.

Simon Harris' comments sparked controversy last week when he linked homelessness to record numbers of asylum seekers.

Charities in the sector say systemic factors related to the housing market are more to blame.

Stephen McDermott

28 Sep 2024

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Homelessness

Record 14,486 in emergency accommodation, including 4,419 children

Updated 27 Sep 2024

10.2k

Ongoing review

Dáil hears debate over €800 payment to people housing Ukrainians which supports 'thousands'

25 Sep 2024

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Homelessness

President Higgins disagrees with Harris’ claim that record homelessness linked to migration

TD Paul Murphy has condemned the Taoiseach’s comments as a “dog-whistle”.

Updated 23 Sep 2024

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The Morning Lead

'Safe for now': Asylum seekers on how they're seeking safety in Dublin after spate of attacks

“We worry that a petrol bomb will come in through the window,” one man staying at a disused council property said.

Eoghan Dalton

23 Sep 2024

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Shankill

O'Brien and Ó Broin clash over cost of affordable purchase homes launched in south Dublin

20 Sep 2024

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House Prices

Residential property prices have increased by nearly 10% in the last year

18 Sep 2024

9.3k

Housing

Around 52,000 new homes needed per year until 2050 due to pent-up demand, says Central Bank

18 Sep 2024

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Think-In

Social Democrats would spend Apple tax revenue on building affordable homes, Holly Cairns says

17 Sep 2024

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financial crash

'His party crashed the economy': Mary Lou hits back at Finance Minister over Sinn Féin criticism

16 Sep 2024

9.2k

Housing

Opinion: Our research shows the new tenure type of Cost Rental has many benefits

Fiona Dunkin

12 Sep 2024

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Housing

Taoiseach says Housing for All plan 'a good starting point' but needs updating

Updated 11 Sep 2024

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