Galway has country's third highest number of spare rooms in houses

Galway Bay fm newsroom - Galway has the country's third highest number of spare rooms in houses according to data from last year's census

Nationally, 390-thousand homes have at least two or more spare rooms which is 21 per cent of households

It's estimated there are 250-thousand spare rooms in Dublin, 139-thousand in Cork, and more than 73-thousand in Galway.

Lecturer in Social Policy at Maynooth University, Rory Hearne, says the rent-a-room scheme needs to be promoted more:

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