Marian Finnegan

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404 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 19 Aug

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Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock · How many new homes does Ireland really need? · 19 Aug 2026 podcast

We see a high prevalence of approved.

Housing body activity in the marketplace, which is what we need now, but we need to look at that into the future and see if that's sustainable.

And we also need to look critically at why more of that accommodation that's been built is not being sold in the private market, because that is what's causing the price inflation to persist at the level.

So even when we talk about delivering 35 or 40,000 houses a year, if you're only actually selling 10,000 of those, price inflation will remain a channel on the open.

market, then price inflation will remain a challenge for quite a bit of a rest of the

So the rest of them are

They're one off, they're institutional, or they're um social housing

Exactly.

Two thirds of the market.

So, okay, stand back from this.

So we absolutely need apartment development in the country.

Otherwise, we're going to persist in building low um low level housing across the entire country and and that isn't the desirable effect.

We also need higher concentration of density in the cities.

When you start building apartments, the cost associated with that is excessively high for the realizable demand.

So what the government are doing in bringing down the VAT on apartments is ensuring that apartment

Developments are occurring for the private sector to buy into.

Without that measure, apartments will be built either simply for rental purposes only or not built at all.

So that that is the trend line that's there.

So saying that the developer will simply push up the price of land into the future is failing to see what the challenges are in the marketplace.

If we don't bring those measures in, then we're not going to see the type of development

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