While the amount of social and affordable houses supplied in the previous year was up, it was still below the government's total objectives.

Additionally, more than 4,000 affordable housing options more than twice as many as the previous year were provided.

The eagerly awaited statistics show a 16% rise in new social housing over the previous year.

8,110 of the dwellings were brand-new construction, 1,830 were purchases, and 1,999 were leased properties.

According to Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien, the movement to provide social housing has only gotten stronger.

Tens of thousands of individuals, he claimed, are receiving help from these houses that may change their lives.

Eoin Ó Broin, a spokesperson for Sinn Féin Housing, called the data supplied "deeply misleading."

However, he said it was evident that the government had fallen short of its goals for newly constructed social housing, and this was true for all affordable housing categories.