Respond said it had 608 new social and affordable homes in construction in Dublin, and had delivered 208 new social and cost-rental homes across the county last year.
During his address on Tuesday, Mr O’Brien said: “We’ve turned a corner on 10 or 12 years of undersupply. Last year we built just short of 30,000 new homes and I intend for us to do more this year, and I’m acutely aware that we do need to do more.” “Things are far from perfect, I’m not disputing that for a moment,” he said, but argued that last year was a “decent start” which he said would be built on – and that he aimed to beat the Government’s housing targets this year. The targets are widely accepted to be an underestimate of the State’s actual housing need.When it comes to homelessness, he said he could not predict when the number of people in emergency accommodation would begin to fall.