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Alex Connolly

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Head of Communications @DeptHousingIRL Opinions very much my own but I rarely have an original one.

 Dublin City, Ireland
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Joined May 2009
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PRII.ie@PRII_ie24 Oct 2024
An Taoiseach @SimonHarrisTD sent a video message, especially for #PRIIConf24 delegates!
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€2.7bn investment in water to support future housing delivery. #Budget2025
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🏡Record €6bn capital investment funding for housing in 2025 to help deliver social, affordable and cost rental homes. #Budget2025
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In excess of €279m for @DeptHousingIRL planning programme. #Budget2025
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#Budget2025 €7.93bn budget package announced across @DeptHousingIRL 🏘️Record €6bn capital funding for housing in 2025 to help deliver social, affordable and cost rental homes. 🏘️Significant funding for Local Authorities, Water, Planning &Heritage.
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Thanks to all who joined us in Sligo for '1588 Armada: Ireland and Spain – a Shared Underwater Cultural Heritage’. There were great discussions about history. Watch this video to see @NationalMons bringing Armada cannon to the surface after 430 years.
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That's it from day 1 at the #Ploughing24 - a busy day for the Department, its units, agencies and staff. We were delighted to welcome Ministers @noonan_malcolm and @Alan_Dillon to the event today. Visit us at stands 172 and 173, Row 11 tomorrow and Thursday
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The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and agencies are looking forward to exhibiting at the National Ploughing Championships in Co. Laois next week from 17th -19th September. Find us at Block 3, Row 11, Marquee 172 & Marquee 173
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@rtenews9 Sep 2024
Work is under way to identify three shipwrecks that were discovered on Portmarnock Strand in Dublin over the summer. The wrecks were exposed due to a shifting sandbank, which also revealed another wreck, which has not been visible for seven years. Read|rte.ie/b/1468989
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More good news for housing completions New report by @EUROCONSTRUCT forecasts: 📈 Irish housing completions to be strongest among 19 European countries 📈 more than double Euroconstruct average 📈 pace of Irish housing growth an outlier in Europe go.ey.com/3xo6Usx
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Just started Volume III of @ShippersUnbound ‘Brexiad’…happy to say it’s up to the standards of its predecessors.
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Big news for all Comms folk today! As a member of the National Council of the @PRII_ie I’m delighted to announce that the institute has just published a brand new vista (quite literally) for the future. Check out the strategy for yourself at: prii.ie/news/prii-launches-n…
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Watch Live | Housing for All April Update teapawt.org/i/broadcasts/1dRKZEgbj…
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Today we welcome Páírc Náisiúnta na Mara, Ciarraí – Ireland’s first Marine National Park and our eighth National Park. The Pairc includes the Conor Pass, as well as new sites at Inch Peninsula, Mount Brandon and the Owenmore River in Co. Kerry.
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Significant day at @RespondHousing development at Hole in the Wall Road Clongriffin as @DarraghOBrienTD marks the first phase of construction of 397 new social and cost rental homes. #HousingforAll @DubCityCouncil @HousingAgencyIE @HFA_Ireland
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At the @eolasmagazine #HousingIreland conference today, @DarraghOBrienTD outlines that: - since 2020, over 100,000 homes have been built, -for the first two years of #HousingforAll housing targets have been exceeded.
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Housing commencements hit new post-boom record in January irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Housing commencements hit new post-boom record in January

3,357 new homes under construction will raise hopes that Housing for All targets this year can be achieved

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Exciting news from #TheCoast in Baldoyle, Dublin. We welcomed 30 new tenants to their lifetime homes. A big thank you to our partners @FingalCouncil, @HFA_Ireland, and @DeptHousingIRL. We have more families joining the @Respond community over the next few months #homesweethome
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Opening new social and cost rental homes in Kilternan in @dlrcc The homes have been built to a high standard in a short timeframe. These "before" and "after" images are just 12 months apart. #HousingforAll is delivering @tuathhousing
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🏡32,695 new homes completed in 2023 📈Up 10% on 2022 📈Exceeds #Housingforall target of 29,000 by 12.7% 📈Largest annual total number since @CSOIreland data series began 📌bit.ly/3vP052l
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