Minister Browne welcomes increased home completions in first quarter of 2025
- Published on: 24 April 2025
- Last updated on: 24 April 2025
The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, James Browne TD today welcomed the increased home completions reflected in today’s publication by the CSO of their New Dwelling Completions Report for Q1 2025. The report shows that there were 5,938 new dwelling completions in January, February, and March of this year, a rise of 2.0% on the same three months of 2024.
Speaking today, Minister Browne emphasised:
“Today’s figures are to be welcomed – and will be very much welcomed by the almost 6,000 families who will avail of these homes. That said, this Government is committed to delivering on very ambitious targets. I want to scale up delivery as rapidly as possible so we can see much greater increases in the future.
“Soon I will be putting in place a dedicated housing activation office team to focus on the ‘problem’ areas which are most in need of attention to get building moving – to identify sites for housing delivery and unlock them, to call out where the system is lagging, and to impose the solutions we need.
“Additionally, I will be establishing An Coimisiún Pleanála in the coming weeks to replace An Bord Pleanála. This new body, with a changed organisational structure, will have mandatory statutory deadlines – accelerating crucial planning decisions and reducing delays in court.
“We must deliver more homes, more quickly, for more people and build on the increases we see today.”
Other highlights in today’s CSO data include:
- More than half of completions (50.9%) were scheme dwellings, 30.0% were apartments, and 19.1% were single dwellings.
- Apartment completions in Q1 2025 stood at 1,781, up 13.4% from Q1 2024.
- Compared to the first quarter of 2024, this year there was an increase in completions in six of the eight regions of Ireland, including a 5.8% rise in the West.
- There was a rise of 2.3% in seasonally adjusted new dwelling completions from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025.
The full CSO report can be accessed here.