Several candidates turned down An Coimisiún Pleanála chair role over low fee
Department of Housing sought sanction to raise €20,500 fee to €50,000 to address conflict of interest issue
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Ireland’s curlew population to be boosted by imported eggs
Number of breeding curlews in Ireland has dropped by an estimated 98% since 1980s
Number of people in emergency accommodation falls for first time since Covid
Homeless numbers remain 11% higher than a year ago
Mortgage approvals reach record in May, driven by first-time buyers
But low share of mover purchase activity ‘points to constraints within housing market’
Home commencement levels fall to rate last recorded in 2020
Housing minister James Browne has says figures for May 2026 point towards ‘strong momentum’
Apartment subsidy scheme has spent 70% of budget on just half of its housing target
The €450m Croí Cónaithe (Cities) scheme aimed to deliver 5,000 apartments for homebuyers by 2026
What next after people have to leave State-funded accommodation centres for refugees?
Hundreds of people in State-funded accommodation for asylum seekers have been told they must find their own homes from early July - what will happen to them?
‘Emergency response’ to homeless crisis, including possible no-fault evictions ban, needed, says committee
More than 17,500 people, including 5,604 children, were in emergency accommodation in April, latest figures show
Council says €6m guesthouse will pay for itself due to cost of homeless accommodation
Dublin City Council bought 20-bedroom Avondale House on Gardiner Street in north inner city for emergency housing
Residential Tenancies Board chairman Owen Keegan resigns, two years into five-year term
Former DCC chief said he has ‘done my bit’ at renting watchdog
Tens of thousands of homes expected to follow new public infrastructure projects
The Oireachtas housing committee heard 138 applications were made for funding aimed at unlocking zoned land
Habitat destruction in Ireland almost doubles without any increase in prosecutions
Figures raise questions over staffing levels in National Parks and Wildlife Service, says TD
Developer facing jail benefited from Minister’s planning ruling on same day as sentencing
Sligo developer Cathal O’Connor faces two years in prison for violent assault on three teenagers
Oliver Bond residents are suffering the slow violence of State neglect
A constitutional right to housing would give residents of the inner-city Dublin complex a tool to pursue their rights
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