Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 10 June 2015
187. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of new construction project completions and new construction project commencement notices lodged in each of the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will provide a breakdown on the number of these that are single dwellings and the number that are multi-unit dwellings. [22521/15]
View answerMy Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing and planning statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of policy. It includes data on the total number of units built (incorporating private, local authority and AHB contributions), broken down by year and house type, and those data are available on my Department’s website at: http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/StatisticsandRegularPublications/HousingStatistics/FileDownLoad,15293,en.xls by clicking “Mthly house completions national 1975 to date” or “House Completions by type 1994 to date” under the House Building heading.
Commencement notice data for private construction, broken down by construction type and year, is available to end 2014 and it can be found at:
http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/StatisticsandRegularPublications/HousingStatistics/FileDownLoad,15293,en.xls by clicking “BCMS Commencement notices from 2014 March” under the House Building heading.
Data on local authority units delivered, broken down by year, is available at:
http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/StatisticsandRegularPublications/HousingStatistics/FileDownLoad,15291,en.xls by clicking “Social Housing Outputs” under the Social Housing Supports heading. However, there is no breakdown available of house type for this dataset.
