Planning permissions for homes were down 14.1% in the last three months of 2012, according to the Central Statistics Office.
Permissions for 1,851 dwelling units were granted during the fourth quarter of last year, compared to 2,156 in the same period of 2011.
431 apartment units were given planning permission - a fall of 30% - while 1,420 houses were granted permission - a fall of almost 8%.
One-off housing accounted for 40.6% of all planning permissions granted during this time.
However the total floor area planned was 7.8% higher than the final three months of 2011, with 763,000sqm of permission being granted in Q4 2012, including new dwellings, other construction and extensions.
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