Galway Bay fm newsroom - Over 90 per cent of rental properties inspected in the city last year failed to meet the required standards.
That's according to a new report from the National Oversight and Audit Commission.
Overall inspection rates of rental properties nationwide remain low - from a high of 14 percent in Monaghan, to a low of just 2 percent in Galway City.
However, of those city properties inspected - 90 per cent failed to meet the required standards.
Similar failure rates were recorded in Mayo, Sligo and Carlow - while every single property inspected in Kilkenny, Laois, Limerick and Offally were found to be non-compliant.
Just two local authorities nationwide had failure rates below 50 per cent - Cavan and Wicklow, with failure rates of 18 and 9 per cent respectively.
The NOAC report reveals that out of 16 thousand properties inspected nationwide last year, almost 80 percent failed to meet required standards.
