Limits on non-EEA workers relaxed ‘temporarily’ to tackle staff shortages in healthcare
Enterprise Minister Peter Burke will tell Cabinet colleagues change will last until more Irish staff are trained
Social Housing
Crime, terror, immigration: France through the eyes of its ‘Fox News’
Watching a day of coverage on CNews reveals how some view country as being a nation in crisis
Fall in number of units added to social housing stock
Retrofitting targets set by Government unlikely to be met, suggests latest report
Former horse trainer’s surprise Dublin flotation of little help to struggling stock market
Corporate financier Kahlil de Burca says GDL listed to comply with rules on Reits rather than to raise funds
Louth has highest delivery of social housing in the State, new study shows
Galway city created fewest social houses in first six months of year, Hardware Association Ireland report shows
Woman denied access to apartment complex gym wins discrimination case
WRC directs Dillon Marshall Property Consultants to pay tenant €2,500 compensation
Homelessness ‘risk’ for hundreds of refugee families sparks exchange between Ministers
Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan downplayed concerns of a Cabinet colleague and said refugees were moving to Dublin because of a ‘desire to live in this region’
Dublin and Cork look to lead on climate action in ambitious pilot project
Plans for Dublin and Cork show sweeping changes needed in transport, housing and energy sources
House price statistics: What do they mean and what do they tell us?
Despite a cooling market and a strong pickup in supply, housing affordability has not improved
Ombudsman finds ‘no evidence’ council called or emailed man removed from housing list
Almost 5,300 complaints made about public services last year – the highest number for more than 30 years
Dublin City Council seeks contractors to build 4,000 social and affordable homes
Council issues notice seeking builders for a four-year, €2.5bn programme of house building
State must ensure an adequate return on assets
Whether it is data centres tapping the energy grid of social housing tenants’ rent, the Government needs to manage its balance sheet
One-off rural housing guidelines set to be overhauled
Anti-poverty initiative reports 0.7 per cent drop in child poverty from 2024 to 2025
Dublin social housing investment guiding at €6.25m offers buyer 4.88% yield
Purpose-built residential scheme of 17 homes in Tallaght let to approved housing body until 2044
Directors of Longford housing contractor Gem share €13m in dividends
Company has secured a number of contracts to build large social housing projects in recent years
Reconstruction starts on Dublin City Council house previously occupied by squatters
Derelict Fairview house ‘structurally unsound’ and will cost at least €200,000 to refurbish
School holidays ‘highly challenging’ for thousands of homeless children as rates rise again
Weekly snapshot does not consider overcrowded housing, refuges, couch-surfing, sleeping rough or IPAS
Taoiseach criticised for remarks linking immigration to homeless numbers
Micheál Martin said more than 50 per cent of people in emergency accommodation were non-Irish
These figures tell the real story of Fianna Fáil’s impact on housing
In 2020, about half of all houses appeared in an estate agent’s window for sale; in 2025, that figure was fewer than one in three
Local authorities to set social housing targets for people with disabilities
Norma Foley says plan provides reassurance to disabled people and their families about ‘housing at right time in their lives’
The ‘accidental beekeeper’ in Ireland’s most nature-deprived neighbourhood
Taking on two beehives and tending to a community garden in The Liberties opened Anthony Freeman-O’Brien’s eyes and heart to the benefits of urban greening
Are renovation costs finally putting a brake on mid-market house prices?
Planned sale of 32 vacant and derelict houses by Dublin City Council will tell us a lot about how far the trend has spread
Opposition urges clarity on whether levies will lead to broken spending promises
Parties also express support for striking ambulance workers, saying their apparent need to strike was ‘outrageous’
High Court appoints provisional liquidators to 13 construction companies
Twenty individual companies in the Torca Homes group, which have faced a number of difficulties in recent years, are insolvent, court told
Child homelessness up by 19% since last year, new figures show
Number of people in emergency accommodation in Ireland reaches 17,517, another record high
Dublin City Council ‘shouldn’t have purchased’ structurally unsound houses in Phibsboro and Drumcondra, engineer says
Almost 100 private houses purchased by authority since 2018 in effort to turn vacant properties into social housing
Minister urges housing bodies to engage on finance difficulties for cost-rental schemes
Most schemes undertaken by approved groups or Land Development Agency due to high debt burden
Councillors to meet housing body over its decision to scrap cost-rental scheme in Cabra
Some 40 houses in Cabra site were to be used for workers who earn too much for social homes but can’t afford rents
Housing can be a hidden admissions officer for students - quiet, powerful and unaccountable
Denmark’s social housing model shows how government initiatives can build sustainable and affordable housing for mixed communities
Dublin council to borrow €36.5m to fund additional affordable homes at O’Devaney Gardens
Move would prevent sale of any private market housing in Dublin 7 development of more than 1,000 apartments
Ireland is ‘delivering’ more social homes, but that doesn’t mean it is building them
Tipperary directly built just three new social houses. Dublin managed 72
Dublin cost-rental scheme dropped over rising costs
Housing body Clúid says it will have to switch to 100 per cent social housing at Bannow Road development in Cabra
Estimated price range of €339,000 to €839,000 for social-housing units in Meath development
Project envisages 757 units, of which 159 are earmarked for social housing
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