Government Under Pressure To Explain Overestimated Number Of Homes Built

The Government is under pressure to explain how it over-estimated the number of new homes being built.

The latest statistics from the CSO show that around 53-thousand new homes were completed between 2011 and 2017, 1,343 of those in Clare.

However previous estimates from the Department of Housing puts the national figure at more than 84-thousand – an extra 30-thousand builds.

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The Government has been basing its calculations solely on new electricity connections, but Paul Morrin from the CSO says they used extra data sources: