The budget bet big on apartments. Will it help fix the housing crisis?
Four experts – a builder, an architect, an economist and a policy expert – weigh in on measures contained in Budget 2026
Land Development Agency
Will the budget solve the housing crisis?
Apartment construction, the income tax burden and questions of prudence are key issues that have emerged from Budget 2026
How a car crash in Dublin 4 drove public-sector CEO salaries higher
Resignation of EirGrid chief has had downstream consequences for Government over top-level pay
Bord na Móna halted CEO’s ‘grossing up’ payments for fear of public outcry
Earnings covering Tom Donnellan’s health cover and car risked undermining public pay policy, department documents show
Up to 70% of income earners priced out of property market, LDA chief says
Cormac O’Rourke says earners in first six income deciles cannot afford average rents or prices without State support
Why is a State organisation competing with taxpayer-funded housing bodies in developing new apartments?
The vast majority of approved housing bodies are micro- or small-sized organisations with fewer than 100 homes on their books
LDA will make only ‘minor contribution’ to housing targets in near term, report finds
Agency advised to consider private sale of affordable housing and land
Developer Sean Mulryan’s Ballymore agrees deal to deliver hundreds of affordable new homes in Dublin
Developer working with Land Development Agency on 817 affordable, cost-rental and social homes in north Dublin town
Foxrock decision shows Nimbys are not the only problem when building housing
Rejection of plan for 21 homes highlights delicate balance between unwelcome precedent and tolerance of residents
More than 380 new apartments approved for Dublin’s Grand Canal cost-rental and social homes scheme
But Minister for Housing accused of having ‘brass neck’ in telling city council to zone more land for residential property
Land Development Agency seeks to block FOI request at High Court
Agency says freedom of information request from journalist Ken Foxe could jeopardise its business model
The institutional investors we need have withdrawn from the Irish housing market
First-time buyers and the State are buying most of the Republic’s dwindling supply of new homes
Developers with permission for apartments will not need fresh application to change plans in line with new standards
More than 50,000 apartments are approved in Dublin alone, but could now be built with less floor space than originally agreed
‘We’ve dropped the ball’: Ireland’s housing targets will be missed because the water, electricity and roads required can’t be delivered
Badly needed scaling up of house-building is threatened by transport and utilities projects stuck in the planning pipeline. What is to be done?
Dublin Port Company pays almost €1.7m in vacant site levy
Property, valued at €4m, was added to register in 2018
Legislation to extend rent pressure zones to entire country to be rushed through Dáil and Seanad
Emergency law will mean remaining 55 out of 166 electoral areas to become RPZs this month
Rent reforms will pull up the drawbridge on future renters
Most studies show rent controls depress development
Political nerves jangle over rent reforms: ‘We’re out defending something without any real evidence it’s going to make a difference’
Some in the Coalition parties fear the costs could outweigh the gains regarding changes to rent pressure zones regime while others point to the longer-term electoral picture
Semi-state CEOs: What do they earn and should they be paid more?
New Government structures mean many heads of commercial State companies will seek pay packet increase following review
Nama to be down to as low as €10m in loans tied to windup, says CEO
Previous agency target was €4.8bn
Rent Pressure Zones: Pressure on Government as it proposes to link certain rents to inflation
Cost-rental tenants may benefit from lower rents in future
Lands near Leopardstown Racecourse to be developed for housing following long-awaited deal
Horse Racing Ireland and Land Development Agency agreement will see more than 800 houses built on 17-acre site next to M50
State utility firms told Minister chief executive pay limits posed ‘serious risks’ to organisations
Pay review group told there were concerns about the potential loss of chief executives at critical time for companies
Almost 2,000 applications for just 20 Dublin cost rental homes
Rent for the one-bedroom apartments will be €1,326 per month, while the two-bedroom units are €1,478 per month
Banks see no sign of imminent spike in housebuilding
State has set target of 41,000 houses this year
‘Rigid’ apartment design guidelines could be revisited, says Simon Harris
Inside Politics: Simon Harris says home building must maintain high standards while catering to different needs of homebuyers
‘Thriving’ Digital Hub to remain open until ‘at least 2027′
Gradual closure of the agency was announced in 2021 with its lands to be transferred to the LDA
Ministers need to stop pointing out obstacles to delivery - and start tackling them
Constant headlines about housing schemes being struck down by councils, the planning board and the courts are chipping away at public confidence
There is a crisis of accountability at the top of the Irish public service
We call housing a ‘crisis’ but don’t deal with it that way
Meet the man running Ireland’s biggest landlord firm, with 3,734 apartments in Dublin
Ires chief Eddie Byrne wants changes to the rent cap rules in a bid to get investment flowing again into apartment building
Housing crisis: Proposals to boost LDA’s remit under consideration to boost housing output
Government considering steps to allow Land Development Agency to build more private housing at its projects
State missed its target for delivery of social homes in 2024 by almost 20%
Shortfall of more than 2,300 homes on 12,930 goal, though affordable homes beat estimates in some measures
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