There are more than 2,000 social homes in the pipeline to be built in Cork, with a target of 1,200 this year, the Department of Housing has confirmed.<\/p>\n
Fine Gael TD John Paul O\u2019Shea asked the department for an update on the delivery of social housing in Cork city and county, including the expected number of units to be completed in 2025.<\/p>\n
Minister of state Christopher O\u2019Sullivan explained that Cork City Council has a target to deliver 592 new-build social homes in 2025, and said: \u201cThe social-housing construction status report, CSR, shows that there were 1,084 homes on site at various stages of design and procurement in Cork city at the end of Q1 of 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cCork county has a target of 683 new-build social homes this year. The CSR shows that there are 1,203 homes on site at various stages of design and procurement in Cork county.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe CSR also shows that 308 new social homes were added to the pipeline across both local authorities in Q1.\u201d<\/p>\n
Welcomed<\/p>\n
Mr O\u2019Shea welcomed the target figures, saying: \u201cThis will bring in the bones of 1,200 new social houses in to the system in Cork city and county for 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cI very much welcome that almost 2,100 units are in the pipeline between Cork city and county.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr O\u2019Sullivan added: \u201cIf all local authorities were able to match the rate of delivery of Cork county, then the rate of delivery of social housing and affordable housing, right across the board, would be much stronger.<\/p>\n
\u201cI commend the work of the councillors and the local authority there.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that in Cork north west, Mr O\u2019Shea\u2019s constituency, there are 16 units in An Cl\u00f3s in Macroom that are substantially complete.<\/p>\n
Percival St and Market Pl, both in Kanturk, have six units and the builders are on site, and they are also on site for two units at Mill Rd in Kanturk.<\/p>\n
Progressing<\/p>\n
Work is also progressing on 23 units at Cl\u00f3s an tSul\u00e1in, Macroom, as well as 48 units on the Kilmallock Rd in Charleville.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cWe cannot rest on our laurels.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a lot more work to be done. There are still plenty of people in Cork county who need social homes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are more than 2,000 social homes in the pipeline to be built in Cork, with a target…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,51416,51415,79,6037,63,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-78571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cork-construction","10":"tag-cork-housing","11":"tag-cork-news","12":"tag-cork-city-council","13":"tag-cork-county-council","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}