Work is resuming at 35 construction sites across the country, where almost 1,000 social houses are due to be completed in the coming weeks.
The sites were allowed to re-open earlier than other workplaces because building work there was almost done and the houses were deemed essential by the Housing Agency and by the Government.
A dozen of the sites are spread among three local authority areas in Dublin. Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown is the exception. Other sites where construction work is resuming or has already resumed are in Kilkenny (three), Waterford and Westmeath (two each), and one each in Carlow, Kildare, Louth, Meath, Tipperary and Wicklow.