Annual Monitoring Programme 2025
Timeline
The Annual Monitoring Form dates:
Issue to all AHBs: 7 January 2026
Return date: 18 February 2026
Please contact us, if you do not receive your Annual Monitoring Form on 7 January 2026.
It is important that all AHBs read and understand the submission requirements and
submit their form properly completed and on time.
AHBRA will not accept incomplete forms or those which contain obvious errors.
Resources for AHBs
All Annual Monitoring Forms will be sent with Guidance documents to assist you with completion. Please see the Guidance documents below:
Explanatory Note for AHBs with over 100 dwellings
Explanatory Note for AHBs with less than 100 dwellings
Following feedback from the sector, we also have resource videos to help you complete certain sections. Please see the list of resources below:
- Organisation Information
- Dwelling Information
- Growth
- Property & Asset Management
- Tenancy Management
- Governance
- Financial Management
- Financial Information
Webinars
We will host “Annual Monitoring Programme 2025” webinars on the following dates:
8 January 2026 3pm
12 January 2026 3pm
In our webinar, we will outline expectations for submission of the Form and explain all resources available to AHBs to complete the Form.
To register for these webinars, please email monitoring@ahbregulator.ie confirming which webinar you wish to attend, your name and your AHB name.
Dedicated Telephone Resource
Please call our team between 10 and 12 during 8 January until 31 January with any Annual Monitoring questions you might have:
01 224 3900
Late or incomplete submissions
Annual Monitoring Forms not received by the deadline will be treated as late submissions. Accordingly, AHBRA may issue a statutory direction under Section 36 of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 requiring the submission of the Form. Failure to comply with a statutory direction will result in further regulatory action, which may include the publication of your organisation’s name on AHBRA’s website as having failed to comply with the requirements of the 2025 Annual Monitoring Programme. This may affect your AHB’s eligibility for certain funding (as outlined in Housing circular 35/2024).
Annual Monitoring Forms received before the submission date, but which are incomplete, will be returned to the submitting AHB with a requirement to resubmit a fully completed Form by the deadline.
In addition, where Forms are submitted containing information, which is clearly inaccurate or incorrect, AHBRA may return these forms with a requirement to resubmit by the deadline.
AHBs who have failed to comply with a direction under Section 36 of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 to submit the Annual Monitoring Form.
The submission of the Annual Monitoring Form is a crucial part of AHBRA’s regulatory framework, providing valuable insights and performance data on AHBs’ activities.
A number of AHBs did not respond to AHBRA’s requests to submit the Annual Monitoring Form. These AHBs were given a direction under Section 36 of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 to return the requested information. An AHB which is given a Section 36 direction is required to comply with the direction within the time frame set out in it.
A list of Approved Housing Bodies which did not comply with the direction to submit the 2022 Annual
Monitoring Form is available here.
AHBs which failed to comply with a Section 36 direction under the 2024 Annual Monitoring Programme.
What happens if we submit late?
Annual Monitoring Forms not received by the deadline will be treated as late submissions. Accordingly, AHBRA may issue a statutory direction under Section 36 of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 requiring the submission of the Form. Failure to comply with a statutory direction will result in further regulatory action, which may include the publication of your organisation’s name on AHBRA’s website as having failed to comply with the requirements of the 2025 Annual Monitoring Programme. This may affect your AHB’s eligibility for certain funding (as outlined in Housing circular 35/2024).
Annual Monitoring Forms received before the submission date, but which are incomplete, will be returned to the submitting AHB with a requirement to resubmit a fully completed Form by the deadline.
In addition, where Forms are submitted containing information, which is clearly inaccurate or incorrect, AHBRA may return these forms with a requirement to resubmit by the deadline.
Why has my form been returned to me ?
Annual Monitoring Forms received before the submission date, but which are incomplete, will be returned to the submitting AHB with a requirement to resubmit a fully completed Form by the deadline.
In addition, where Forms are submitted containing information, which is clearly inaccurate or incorrect, AHBRA may return these forms with a requirement to resubmit by the deadline.
Annual Monitoring Forms not received by the deadline will be treated as late submissions. Accordingly, AHBRA may issue a statutory direction under Section 36 of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 requiring the submission of the Form. Failure to comply with a statutory direction will result in further regulatory action, which may include the publication of your organisation’s name on AHBRA’s website as having failed to comply with the requirements of the 2025 Annual Monitoring Programme. This may affect your AHB’s eligibility for certain funding (as outlined in Housing circular 35/2024).
What resources are available to help me complete the form?
All Annual Monitoring Forms will be sent with Guidance documents to assist you with completion. Please see the Guidance documents below:
Explanatory Note for AHBs with over 100 dwellings
Explanatory Note for AHBs with less than 100 dwellings
Following feedback from the sector, we also have resource videos to help you complete certain sections. Please see the list of resources below:
Why Do AHBs need to complete the form?
AHBs are registered under Section 26A of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019. As such AHBs are subject to all aspects of the Act, including the provision of information to AHBRA in order to enable us to carry out our functions.
The Annual Monitoring Form provides AHBRA with a range of specific performance information relating to the activities of the AHB including general information on the organisation, its governance and financial management as well as property and tenancy management.
Can I have an extension to the deadline?
No, we are unable to offer extensions to the deadline of 18 February 2026. Any AMF received after that date would have to be recorded as a late submission by the AHB.
Annual Monitoring Forms not received by the deadline will be treated as late submissions. Accordingly, AHBRA may issue a statutory direction under Section 36 of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 requiring the submission of the Form. Failure to comply with a statutory direction will result in further regulatory action, which may include the publication of your organisation’s name on AHBRA’s website as having failed to comply with the requirements of the 2025 Annual Monitoring Programme. This may affect your AHB’s eligibility for certain funding (as outlined in Housing circular 35/2024).
We haven’t received an Annual Monitoring form?
Please note the Annual Monitoring form will be sent to the previously agreed Primary Contact. If the Primary Contact has not received the form on 7 January 2026, please contact us:
Telephone: 01 224 3900
Email: monitoring@ahbregulator.ie
Please provide your name and the AHB name in the email.
I can’t find the Guidance documents?
Please find the Guidance documents below:
Why do I have to submit audited financial statements?
The Annual Monitoring Programme’s purpose is to collect a range of up-to-date information and performance data from AHBs. All AHBs should submit a full set of their most recent audited financial statements.
Please note we will not accept abridged audited financial statements.