Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail)
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1134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if three houses (details supplied) are currently under the ownership of Galway County Council; if so, the reason the properties have not been made available to families on the social housing list in view of the level of homelessness in Galway city and county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54343/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Responsibility for the allocation and tenanting of social housing homes in the ownership of the 31 local authorities, including the ownership and management of Council properties, are matters for the local authorities themselves and information on specific properties would ordinarily be available directly from those authorities.

In the case of the properties referred to, Galway County Council has advised my Department that they do not own these and they are not part of their social housing stock.