Dublin City Council has said it is working with the Department of Housing, the Land Development Agency and Approved Housing Bodies to build as many homes as possible for first time buyers and those on the housing waiting list.
Assistant CEO for Housing at DCC Mick Mulhern said the council is "working to deliver as many homes as possible in the quickest time frame possible" and is now working across 100 different sites to deliver 12 thousand homes, which he said could take a number of years.
He said of the 169 new homes launched today at Rathborne Crossing close to Ashtown station, DCC would take 86 of those. "There'll be social houses in one and two beds as part of this new development, which also includes a new creche and amenity space."
It comes as residential property price growth slipped to a 16-month low of 7.5% in July, down from 7.9% in June, new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show.
The CSO said that property prices in Dublin rose by 6% in July and prices outside Dublin were up by 8.7% compared with the same month last year.
Lord Mayor of Dublin Ray McAdam said there was a significant pipeline of development by Dublin City Council in terms of housing delivery taking place in the city at the present.
"But obviously I fully acknowledge that we need to do more, and we are doing more."
He said a decision would be taken before the end of this year in terms of reviewing who gets priority from the council's housing list.
He said the Strategic Housing Policy Committee was looking at this.
He acknowledged there were too many families and individuals experiencing homelessness and he said: "What we're working to do is to ensure that we ramp up supply, to ensure those, those families, have an opportunity to move in, into permanent accommodation."
Reacting to the figures, the Minister for Housing James Browne said supply was key, but the Government was working to deliver as many homes as possible.
"I'm very conscious that's a very significant increase. It is affecting affordability.
"We need to get the apartments and the homes built. People need to be able to afford them, and that's why we're taking as many measures as we can.
"But the key to getting house prices stabilised, and actually at an affordable price, is supply. That's why everything I've been doing for the first six months as Minister for Housing is making those key decisions, often difficult decisions, often decisions are being criticised, but they will actually deliver the supply that we need."
In terms of numbers, he said there had never been a 50,000 target for delivery.
"There won't be 50,000 this year, but it was never intended to be 50,000 homes this year.
"What we want to see is an increase in the homes last year, and continue to build on the momentum that is there. In the last government we went from 19,000 homes to well over 30,000 homes actually in the lifetime of Housing For All, we actually exceeded the targets."
'Significant step change' - Browne
Speaking today, Minister Browne said the government is starting from further behind this year in terms of delivering housing that would have been expected.
He said he expected to see housing targets and delivery accelerate as the years go on but he would not be drawn on how many houses will be delivered by the end of this calendar year.
"We accept there has to be a significant step change," he said.
He said a little over 30,000 homes were delivered last year but the hope was that would have been higher.
"That was a real disappointment and it does mean this year and in the near future we're probably starting from further behind what we would expect," he said.
He said important decisions were being taken to accelerate delivery including making the country a national rent pressure zone, giving more security of tenure to tenants and what he hoped would be more certainty for international investors.
"We need international finance to finance the construction sector in this country to deliver," he said.
He said with the ebb and flow of construction, a few apartment blocks being completed in December, slipping into January could fundamentally change annual numbers.
"I've never been in the business of forecasting but my business is to ensure we maximise every opportunity to deliver as many homes as possible."
In terms of homelessness figures he said this was being looked at a granular level to look at the different reasons for it and trying to address those.
Asked about a downturn in planning applications and comments from the Labour Party that he was seeking to blame local authorities for this, he said: "We've seen a 35% increase in building delivery in the second quarter. You're always going to have when you're dealing with something like building variations of commencements, planning, the delivery."
He said he will keep an eye on looking at how more planning we can be accelerated working with the local authorities, ensuring they have the resources they need.
"It also means having the land zoned that we need as well.
"This is not about the blame game. This is about ensuring that we have the homes delivered where we need to build, the communities that everybody deserves," he said.
Housing Activation office 'up and running'
Minister Browne says the new Housing Activation Office will have a lead or a head, but will not have a housing 'tsar'.
"All of the specialists from utility companies are now in place, and the specialists from the local authorities as well.
"We are engaging with local authorities, writing out to them soon to identify the key areas. So that work is ongoing, and we will be identifying that lead. I don't give it any particular moniker, but it will have a lead, and we're making that final decision as to how exactly that would be implemented," he said.
Today's CSO figures show that house prices in Dublin rose by 6.2% while apartment prices increased by 5.3%.
The highest house price growth in Dublin was in Dublin City at 7.7% while Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown saw a rise of 4.7%.
Outside Dublin, house prices were up by 8.7% and apartment prices rose by 7.5%.
The region outside of Dublin that saw the largest growth in house prices was the Midlands (Laois, Longford, Offaly, and Westmeath) at 10.9%, while the South-East (Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, and Wexford) and the South-West (Cork and Kerry) both saw increases of 8.1%.
The median price of a home bought in the 12 months to July 2025 was €374,99, the CSO added.
Today's figures show that the highest median price for a home in the 12 months to July was €675,000 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, while the lowest median price was €195,000 in both Donegal and Leitrim.
Meanwhile, the most expensive Eircode area in July was A94 (Blackrock, Dublin) with a median price of €795,000, while F45 (Castlerea, Roscommon) had the lowest price of €150,000.
Today's CSO figures also show that a total of 4,712 home purchases were filed with Revenue in July, a decrease of 0.2% when compared with the 4,723 purchases in July last year.
The total value of transactions filed in July was €2.1 billion - made up of 3,567 existing homes with a value of €1.5 billion, and 1,145 new homes with a value of €550.7m.
Today's figures mean that Dublin residential property prices are 6.8% higher than their February 2007 peak, while residential property prices in the Rest of Ireland are 23% higher than their May 2007 peak.
Additional reporting by Eleanor Burnhill
