Darragh O’Brien said the MetroLink ‘would not be replaced by self-driving cars’, as suggested by Dermot Desmond.

His comments came after MMA fighter Conor McGregor said he is considering a legal challenge to the eligibility rules for presidential elections.

Edwin Poots said comments by Caoimhe Archibald in relation to the north south interconnector were not ‘appropriate’.

Data published by the Central Statistics Office revealed that only 30,330 new homes were completed last year

Darragh O’Brien was speaking at the opening of Dublin Airport’s solar farm

Housing Minister James Browne appeared to roll back on a Government commitment to end homelessness by 2030.

James Browne said he would not be putting a deadline on ending homelessness.

Sinn Féin, Social Democrats and Aontú are all calling for an early return of the Dáil.

The judge said Patrick McGreal’s case lacked the necessary factual engagement to be allowed to continue.

A record 205 families took refuge in The Salvation Army’s three family hubs across the capital, compared to 173 in 2022.

‘The only way to fix housing is to change the government,’ Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin said

The latest figures show there were 14,760 people, including 4,561 children, accessing such services in September – record highs for both metrics.

The coalition leaders have agreed a target of 50,500 homes a year on average between 2025 and 2030.

Senior government figures emphasised the importance of showing the public how new housing targets could be reached.

The Taoiseach said the Government would exceed its overall target and the total figure would be ‘well upwards towards 40,000’

There was a rise in the September figures of almost two per cent.

Labour leader Ivana Bacik said that the housing crisis was holding back the country.

Darragh O’Brien was due to publish new housing targets for next year and the years ahead.

Residential property prices have risen by 10.1 per cent in the year to August, latest figures have shown.

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

Roderic O’Gorman said that asylum seekers have no entitlement to housing supports or homeless accommodation.

Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien said that Ireland was ‘bucking a trend’ by seeing its construction sector continue to grow.

Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty criticised the decision to increase the Standard Fund Threshold (SFT).

The massive cost of the 18-bike shelter was again raised in the Dáil on Thursday.

The Housing Minister said further funding would be needed if housing targets are increased.

Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien said the Government was making progress over housing shortages.

Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson Pearse Doherty and Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien clashed in the Dáil on Thursday

Stardust campaigner Antoinette Keegan said former taoiseach Charlie Haughey’s son Sean ‘shouldn’t have spoke’ to the Dáil

Simon Harris said the boost of supply has not yet had an impact on housing affordability as they were still catching up with demand.

Darragh O’Brien said that, despite ‘good momentum’, he is ‘acutely aware’ of the number of homeless people in Ireland.

There were 13,318 people, including 3,962 children, accessing such services in December.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar admitted that the government needs to ‘do better’ this year and next year.

Richard Boyd Barrett told the Minister for Housing that people are struggling to find housing ‘at every level’

The Peter McVerry Trust said earlier in the year that it was experiencing cashflow pressures.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the Government was ‘making real progress’ in tackling the housing crisis.

Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien said housing supply is ‘going in the right direction’.