There were 216 empty council homes in the North West at the end of the first six months of this year.
Sligo had 25, Leitrim had 20 while Donegal accounted for one of the highest rates outside of the large population centres at 171.
There are currently over 3 thousand 500 council homes lying empty across the country.
That’s despite there being over 95 thousand people on local authority housing waiting lists.
The vacant council house figures were released under the Freedom of Information Act to Aontú leader and Meath-West TD Peadar Tóibín.
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