Council house waiting list hits 80,000

NEARLY 80,000 families and individuals are on waiting lists for social housing despite the Government spending €4.7 billion to tackle the problem in the past five years.

Council house waiting list  hits 80,000

As waiting lists double, figures obtained by the Irish Examiner show there are at least 5,600 empty council houses around the country.

An analysis of local authority housing stock shows:

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