Fingal County Council has celebrated a landmark year in housing, delivering more homes in 2018 than the previous three years combined.

The local authority delivered over 1,600 homes last year, exceeding its target and beating 2015-2017's numbers by almost 300 units.

Director of Housing Margaret Geraghty said: "We were in the happy position coming into 2018 that we had exceeded our target for the three previous years. The challenge though for 2018 was to deliver 1,637 housing solutions for people, which was greater than the total for the previous three years.

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"It is really great that we did make that target and it is a really positive contribution in terms of social housing delivery overall. It is important to understand that the 1,637 housing solutions we provided means that many households did get an offer of social housing support, many for the first time from Fingal County Council, over the course of the year.

"We could not have reached that target without the on-going commitment and support of the housing team, including our own in-house architects team and the continued support of our elected representatives."

Discussing the projections for 2019, Ms Geraghty added: "We will be continuing to build new housing over 2019, and we will begin to see senior citizens accommodation becoming part of what we normally in terms of housing delivery.

"My ambition for 2019 is to keep it going and at the end of the year to say we have had another very successful year, while all the time knowing that the people on our housing list are the primary focus of the Housing Department to find a sustainable housing solution for them and their family."

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