Around 35,000 new homes will have been delivered by the end of the year

'Reforms remain necessary for housing delivery to ramp up, which is even more important as uncertainty due to tariffs slows Irish economic growth this year'

The Central Bank predicted that the Government will miss its housing targets for the next three years.

They will include new targets for social, affordable, rental and private ownership homes.

There were 6,884 new dwelling completions between April and June this year, a fall of 5.4 per cent on the same period last year