Dublin City Council only built 29 houses last year.
That's despite 16-thousand people on waiting lists for local authority homes.
At a meeting of Dublin City Council last night, the assistant city manager with responsibility for housing Dick Brady admitted that there is an urgent need to increase housing supply in the city.
The problem is that there aren't enough units and the accommodation that is available isn't suitable.
55 percent of those on lists are single and there are very few one bedroom homes.
Dick Brady's also said there's a problem with the council's ageing property stock, calling it a "Celtic Tiger policy legacy".
Excluding the regeneration of Ballymun, there was a ten-fold decrease in the number of homes built since 2009.
While there were different suggestions on how to tackle the issue, all councillors agreed to seek an urgent meeting with Housing Minister Jan O'Sullivan.
