Delivering 303,000 homes by 2030

Thursday 20th March 2025 • Croke Park, Dublin

 
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Housing Ireland Conference

Delivering 303,000 homes by 2030

In November 2024, ahead of the general election, the outgoing Government approved a revised delivery target of 303,000 new homes across the State by 2030.

Outlining a pathway to deliver an average of 50,500 homes per annum, rising to 60,000 in 2030 and subsequent years, the then-Government described it as a crucial step towards meeting:

  1. growing housing need, as per population increases; and
  2. existing and ongoing demand for housing.

Now, ahead of a Programme for Government agreed by the incoming 35th Government of Ireland, the sector waits, and questions of delivery at scale abound.

Meanwhile, the Report of The Housing Commission, published earlier in 2024 – as agreed in Programme for Government 2020 – advocates for a “radical strategic reset of housing policy”.

In this context, the 10th annual Housing Ireland conference will host a range of expert domestic and international speakers who will comprehensively explore the challenges, and tangible opportunities for Ireland’s housing practitioners as they seek to deliver 303,000 by 2030.

Key issues

Key issues to be examined:

Replete with an expert panel of high-level speakers, both domestic and visiting, the conference will be comprehensive, examining themes which include:
  • Housing for All implementation and progress
  • New 2030 housing target
  • European housing policy perspective
  • What the Planning and Development Act 2024 means for residential construction
  • Housing as an environmental common good
  • Delivering social and affordable housing at scale
  • The local authority role in delivering social and affordable housing at scale
  • Increasing the proportion of social and cost rental housing within the national housing stock
  • Strategic review of AHB sector
  • North and South: The social and affordable housing landscape in Ireland
  • Childcare provision in new housing
  • Housing conditions and integrated care for older people
  • Innovative methods to scale residential construction
  • The Report of The Housing Commission
  • Financing new housing supply
  • Ensuring a supply of sustainable and climate resilient housing
  • Overcoming challenges to residential construction
  • The holistic role of AHBs in establishing sustainable and vibrant communities
  • First Revision of the National Planning Framework
  • Delivering homes on state lands
  • Design for social and affordable housing
  • Decarbonising the social housing sector
Speakers

Confirmed speakers

Caroline Timmons

Caroline Timmons is Acting Assistant Secretary at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. She has responsibility for the Housing Affordability, Inclusion and Homelessness Division in the Department. She has previously worked as a principal officer in the housing policy and planning divisions of the department. She is a barrister and prior to joining the Department, she practiced for a number of years at the Bar before joining the Attorney General’s Office as Advisory Counsel and then worked as legal advisor to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. She previously served on the board of the Land Development Agency and is currently a member of the board of the First Home DAC.


Acting Assistant Secretary
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Dan Hill

Dan Hill is Director of Melbourne School of Design, the graduate school in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, and Professor of the Built Environment. He was formerly Director of Strategic Design at Vinnova, the Swedish government’s innovation agency. A designer and urbanist, Dan's previous leadership roles include Vinnova in Stockholm, Arup in Sydney and London, the Finnish innovation fund SITRA in Helsinki, Fabrica in Italy, and the Future Cities Catapult and the BBC in London. Dan is also a Professor at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Practice and founder member of the Council on Urban Initiatives, a joint venture between UN-HABITAT, LSE and UCL.


Director
Melbourne School of Design and Professor of the Built Environment
University of Melbourne

Paddy Gray

Professor Paddy Gray OBE is Professor Emeritus of Housing at Ulster University. He has over 300 publications in  housing. In 2010 he was appointed the first and only Irish President of the Chartered Institute of Housing. He is a regular  media commentator on housing related issues. He is currently Chair of the Wheatley Foundation and Vice Chair of Wheatley  Homes Glasgow. In Ireland he is Chair of Tuath Housing Association and iCare Housing, Dublin. In 2017 he was appointed  to the Board of the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) in Ireland and Chairs its Research Committee. He is a former Chair  and currently a board member of Connswater Belfast, and is on the boards of First Housing and Support Services, and  Advice Northwest Derry as well as Safeagent Cheltenham. In 2012 he was awarded an honorary Fellowship of RICS. In  2015 he won the UK national award for Outstanding Contribution to Work Experience. In 2016 he hosted the European  Network for Housing Research (ENHR) annual conference in Belfast, the first time it had come to NI. In 2017 he was named  the top power player in housing in the UK and in 2019 was awarded an OBE for services to housing. In 2021 he was  appointed to the Housing Commission in Ireland.

Professor Emeritus of Housing, Ulster University and Chair, Tuath Housing Association

Paul Hogan


Acting Assistant Secretary, Head of the Planning Division
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Killian O’Sullivan

 


Assistant Planner
Fingal County Council

Margaret Geraghty



Assistant Programme Co-ordinator, Housing Delivery Coordination Office Team
Local Government Management Agency

Seán Armstrong

Seán Armstrong is Head of Unit for the Climate & Construction Innovation unit within the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. This unit leads and develops policy related to climate action, construction industry regulation, modern methods of construction, residential construction cost reduction, the transposition of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) and Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB). The unit is also responsible for placing the Construction Industry Register Ireland (CIRI) on a statutory footing and for registration of construction professionals. He is a Chartered Engineer and has extensive experience in the construction sector and building energy policy.

Head of Climate & Construction Innovation Unit
Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage

Brian Mallon

 


Associate Director
Hawkins\Brown

Claire McManus

Claire McManus chairs the RIAI Housing Committee and is the RIAI Spokesperson on Housing. She holds an MBA and is involved in the research and development of RIAI policy with respect to Housing.  Claire is a member of several other housing committees including the Housing Agency’s ‘Supply & Affordability Panel’, the DHLG/RIAI ‘Joint Housing Committee’ and Tuath Housing Association’s ‘Development Committee’

Director
JFOC Architects and
Spokesperson on Housing
RIAI

Daniel McCrum

Dr McCrum is also an Associate Professor in Structural Engineering at the School of Civil Engineering in University College Dublin where he leads the Modern Methods of Construction Research Group. Dr McCrum is a funded principal investigator and member of the Centre Executive Management Committee of Construct Innovate, Ireland's National Research Centre for Construction Technology and Innovation. Within Construct Innovate, where he also leads the challenge theme on Productivity, Affordability and Cost, which directly relates to improving the adoption of MMC. A significant current project funded by Enterprise Ireland and in collaboration with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage aims to develop Building Regulation compliant standardised construction details for MMC. Dr McCrum is a chartered structural engineer and has been a funded Principal Investigator by Research Ireland, Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, Irish Research Council, Enterprise Ireland, amongst others.

Co-Principal Investigator ConstructInnovate

Shirley Coulter

 


Chief Executive Officer
Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland

Tom Maguire

 


Senior Development Advisor
Enterprise Ireland

Tom Grey

 


Research Fellow, Civil Structural & Environmental Engineering
University College Dublin

Eoin Ó Broin TD

Eoin Ó Broin TD has been a Sinn Féin activist for 20 years. He is a Spokesperson on Housing, Local Government and Heritage and his priorities are public and private investment in job creation across Dublin Mid-West, investment in social housing, greater regulation of the private rented market and government support for those in mortgage distress and fair tax reform to help hard pressed working families while generating sufficient revenue to invest in jobs, health, education, childcare and community services. Eoin was elected to Belfast City Council from 2001 to 2004 and was the party’s Director of European Affairs from 2004 to 2007. He was also a Councillor for the Clondalkin/Newcastle/Rathcoole area having been co-opted in 2013 and topping the poll in 2014.


Housing Spokesperson
Sinn Féin

Owen Reidy

Owen Reidy General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions since October 2022. The ICTU organises and represents the interests of over 760,000 workers across the island of Ireland through its 46 affiliate trade unions. The ICTU is the coordinated voice of the Irish trade union movement representing the interests of workers in dialogue with government and the EU and with other social partners.

 

Prior to this appointment he was the Assistant General Secretary of the ICTU for a 6-year period with responsibility for Northern Ireland. He represented our NI unions on issues such a Brexit and engaged with both the UK government and Stormont during this period.

 

He started his trade union career in SIPTU in 1998 working in a number of capacities and has represented and organised a diverse range of workers in both the public and private sector. Before joining the ICTU in 2016 he was a member of the SIPTU senior management team and was involved in several high-profile disputes including the Luas, Dublin Bus, Bus Eireann and Irish Rail strikes and the Greyhound lockout.

 

He is a graduate of University College Dublin with a BA in History and Politics and an MA in Politics. He is a father of 2 and is from Donegal.

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General Secretary
Irish Congress of Trade Unions

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Who should attend

Who should attend?

The conference will attract stakeholders engaged in all aspects of housing policy, funding, delivery, and management, including senior managers in the public, private, and third sectors in Ireland.

It will be of particular interest to:

  • Professionals in housing policy and delivery
  • Government departments and agencies
  • Those providing social welfare advice
  • Approved housing bodies
  • Policy / public affairs advisors
  • The construction industry
  • Project funders
  • Legal advisors
  • Housing and planning consultants
  • The community and voluntary sector / NGOs
  • Local elected representatives
 
 

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Sponsorship and exhibition 

There are a small number of opportunities to get involved with the Housing Ireland conference 2025 as a sponsor or exhibitor. Now in its tenth year, Housing Ireland has established itself as a significant event in the Irish housing sector’s calendar and is attended annually by key sectoral stakeholders.

For further information on sponsorship Contact Ciarán Galway on +353 (0)1 661 3755 or email ciaran.galway@eolasmagazine.ie and for exhibition details contact Sam Tobin at sam.tobin@eolasmagazine.ie

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Getting to the venue

Croke Park

Jones' Road
Drumcondra
Dublin 3, Ireland

 
 

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