90 per cent of city rental properties inspected fail to meet standards

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.