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Government Greenlights €2.5 Billion Funding Boost for the Land Development Agency

    Government Greenlights €2.5 Billion Funding Boost for the Land Development Agency

The government has green lit an additional funding injection of up to €2.5 bn for the Land Development Agency (LDA), effectively doubling the agency’s capitalisation to facilitate the construction of

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Building supplies company is third challenger to Galway Ring Road

A building supplies company is the third challenger to take a High Court action over permission granted for the Galway City Ring Road, claiming a change to the scheme “flies

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Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien admits house prices will continue to rise in 2022

Darragh O’Brien has admitted house prices will continue to rise this year. The Minister for Housing has conceded that the crisis in housing, which is seeing Generation Rent trapped in

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‘No silver bullet’ to reduce house prices warns Minister

The Minister for Housing has said that increasing housing supply alone will not be enough to reduce prices. Speaking at the launch of the second quarterly progress report on the

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Housing for All: Q4 2021 Progress Report published

The government today published the second quarterly update on progress of the implementation of Housing for All. It shows significant progress towards the government’s plan to increase the supply of

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At a glance: How €35bn transport fund will be spent

    At a glance: How €35bn transport fund will be spent

The Government said its €35 billion investment in the transport system will transform how the country travels and halve Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Public transport will get €12

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Home-building potential of Irish wood underlined in new poll

    Home-building potential of Irish wood underlined in new poll

90% of Irish adults who took part in a recent poll don’t know the Irish forest industry produces enough wood to build over 44,000 homes per annum, according to Coillte.

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Govt debt could end up on ‘unsustainable path’ – IFAC

    Govt debt could end up on ‘unsustainable path’ – IFAC

The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has said the economy is recovering ‘swiftly’ but government spending plans for the upcoming Budget are “at the limit of what is prudent”. In its pre-Budget

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Ministers set to approve summer economic statement with capital boost for housing

    Ministers set to approve summer economic statement with capital boost for housing

Senior Government ministers are understood to have reached agreement on the summer economic statement, which is now due to be approved by a special Cabinet meeting. The statement, which is

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Simon Coveney launches “Pillar 2” of housing action plan

    Simon Coveney launches “Pillar 2” of housing action plan

Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Simon Coveney, has announced the details of Pillar 2 ‘Accelerate Social Housing’ under Rebuilding Ireland – an action plan for housing and

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Cross-sector group to discuss how to improve the quality of the Irish existing housing stock

A cross sectoral group of organisations from government, local authorities, industry and charities met to develop a strategy to improve the quality of the Irish existing housing stock. The residential

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€1m boost for geology research

The government will provide €1 million funding for 41 small scale geoscience research projects in 2016. The projects have been funded by the Geological Survey of Ireland in the Department

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Nearly 32% of people want the Government to build new houses as their first priority

The rents are now higher in Dublin then during the boom and deposit lending falling, one – third of the people think the Government should build more houses itself for

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