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- Received 30 December 2025Decided 27 January 2026Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Ref No. in Planning Register: 22/19 Ref No. in Planning Register: 17/41 Files for UD/051 C124/20
- Received 18 December 2025Decided 19 January 2026Part-GrantedGalway City Council
All UN-redacted correspondences re this land exchange between ********* & Galway City Council/Galway Corporation, 1989-to date. Please include a UN-redacted copy of the 2023 legal agreement between the ******* family, along with all legal advice obtained by Galway City Council re same All planning materials, including: all maps & drawings of this land exchange, specifically, details of the volumes/locations of lands to be exchanged, 1989-to date. A copy of the Galway City Council/Galway Corporation drawings for the Red Lane public lands/********* site, prior to the 1989 agreement A UN-redacted copy of the fixed asset register, detailing all public lands in the Shantalla area, 1989-to date, both registered and UN-registered. Please expedite the response to this FOI request, as it will form part of future appeals re this matter.
- Received 19 December 2025Decided 14 January 2026Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 18 December 2025Decided 13 January 2026RefusedGalway City Council
Enforcement at Dunnes Eyre Sq
- Received 8 December 2025Decided 2 January 2026Part-GrantedGalway City Council
I request the following information from Galway City Council (discharging the functions of the Lough Corrib Navigation Trustees), under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act 2014, records since January 1st 2019 of the terms and conditions of the licence granted to Corrib Princess Ltd for the commercial use of the Steamer’s Quay (Woodquay), Galway.
- Received 11 December 2025Decided 22 December 2025RefusedGalway City Council
I request the following under Freedom of Information: A copy of Galway City Council’s internal audit on cyber security completed this year
- Received 11 December 2025Decided 22 December 2025GrantedGalway City Council
Copies of all invoices relating to the upgrading of the City Council’s Emergency Meeting Room
- Received 3 December 2025Decided 19 December 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Letters and email correspondence between the Western Development Commission and Galway City Council from July 1st 2025 to the current date. Clarified Letters and email correspondence between the Western Development Commission and Galway City Council in relation to European funding initiatives from October 1st 2025 to the current date.
- Received 18 November 2025Decided 16 December 2025GrantedGalway City Council
1 . Details of any works carried out in *** Ballinfoyle Park, Headford Road, Galway, ****** since December 2017. 2 . Details of the entity/contractors/subcontractors responsible for and contracted to carry out works in *** Ballinfoyle Park, Headford Road, Galway, ****** from December, 2017 to date . 3 . Details of any complaints made in relation to the condition of *** Ballinfoyle Park, Headford Road, Galway, ******* from December 2017 to date .
- Received 11 November 2025Decided 11 December 2025GrantedGalway City Council
I am requesting a copy of the tenancy agreement/lease signed by Galway City Council and Ballyane Community Centre Company, under the freedom of information act 2014.
- Received 18 November 2025Decided 8 December 2025RefusedGalway City Council
As is my right under the Freedom of Information Act can you ask Councillor ********** to furnish us with the name of the neighbour that she represented?
- Received 1 December 2025Decided 4 December 2025RefusedGalway City Council
A copy of any database extract or other tabular spreadsheet record with the following data on the RZLT: the address/eircode; name of the site/property owner; the liability owed; the liability made to date; deferral (y/n); exemption (y/n)
- Received 5 November 2025Decided 3 December 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 11 November 2025Decided 2 December 2025RefusedGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 14 November 2025Decided 2 December 2025RefusedGalway City Council
• A table showing the total kilometres of road maintenance and road improvement for local and regional roads carried out in Galway city by the local authority for each of the last ten years, broken down annually.
- Received 7 November 2025Decided 1 December 2025GrantedGalway City Council
1. The total cost paid by Galway City Council or through the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Open Sky Data Systems Ltd for the CBL system, from its inception to the present date. • A breakdown of payments (or costs incurred) for each additional features that are used within the CBL system supplied by Open Sky Data Systems Ltd. • The dates or periods during which these payments were made. • Current features utilised by Galway City Council to manage social housing listing through CBL system ie applicants position, electronic housing assessments etc
- Received 26 November 2025Decided 27 November 2025Handled outside of FOIGalway City Council
I would like to request the figures on how many claims/ reports there are if people who have slipped on oats. I'm looking at a range of the last 18 months. This would be for claims of both public liability and insurance claims. Additionally, reports, written or otherwise. This is across the full city too.
- Received 3 October 2025Decided 26 November 2025GrantedGalway City Council
All correspondence to and from Galway City Council and 1) the NTA and 2) Department of Housing and Local Government pertaining to URDF funding Call 2 “Transport Connectivity Proposal” within the past three months (July 1 to September 30) including but not limited to correspondence related to Clifden Railway Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge Refined: 29.10.25 All correspondence to and from Galway City Council and 1) the NTA and 2) Department of Housing and Local Government pertaining to financial adjustments of URDF funding Call 2 “Transport Connectivity Proposal” specifically relating to Ceannt Station and Clifden Railway Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge.
- Received 3 October 2025Decided 26 November 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Specifically the reports submitted by Galway City Council to the EPA in accordance with the regulations for the following bathing waters: • All Galway City Council beaches Silverstrand Salthill Ballyloughane • All Galway City Council bathing areas Period 01.01.2020 to 08.10.2025
- Received 3 November 2025Decided 26 November 2025RefusedGalway City Council
a copy of any records held in the environment section of GCC referring or relating to the scattering of porridge or oats in the city centre. This request to cover the period 1 June 2025 to date
- Received 29 October 2025Decided 21 November 2025GrantedGalway City Council
Amount of money spent on Christmas lights installation around the city for the past 2 years. This figure should include installation and maintenance costs as well as storage, and purchase/rental of the lights themselves. Please separate both years into their own standalone figures.
- Received 29 October 2025Decided 21 November 2025GrantedGalway City Council
1. The total amount of money paid by the council in compensaƟon or seƩlement payments to members of the public for each of the years 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025. 2. A breakdown of this expenditure by category of claim (for example: personal injury, property damage, public liability, etc.), if such a breakdown is readily available. 3. For each year, the number of claims seƩled and the number of claims currently outstanding, if recorded.
- Received 13 November 2025Decided 21 November 2025Handled outside of FOIGalway City Council
I would like you to send me your GDPR responsibilities in relation to the new Parking requirements around Galway. Specifically, I need to know how long you retain a cars number plate details and who exactly you share this information with. Clarification: I am interested in your GDPR responsibilities anywhere you are required to give a car number plate when parking in City Council parking areas. This is personal information and is held in some system, and as a collector of data it comes under GDPR. If you have any other questions, please let me know.
- Received 20 November 2025Decided 20 November 2025RefusedGalway City Council
Please can you send the total clamping fines in Galway City collected month-by-month for 2023, 2024, 2025 to date. Clamping statistics - The number of vehicles clamped in Galway City per month/week in December over the past 3-5 years. Location data - which streets/areas had the highest clamping rates during December 2024 in Galway City? Release times - The average time taken to release vehicles in Galway City after payment in December over the past 3-5 years
- Received 24 October 2025Decided 19 November 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 20 October 2025Decided 17 November 2025RefusedGalway City Council
I am specifically seeking information regarding the operational status and management of pay-and- display parking machines in Galway City. 1 January 2023 to the date of this request: 1. A record or summary (e.g. spreadsheet, internal report or similar) showing: a. The number and locaƟons of machines marked “out of order” or made inaccessible (e.g. by bagging or signage) 2. Any finalised internal reports, assessments, briefing notes, or presentaƟons regarding: a. The status, maintenance or performance of pay-and-display parking machines b. Any consideraƟon of transiƟoning away from physical machines toward mobile/app-based parking payment systems 3. Records relaƟng to the decision or authorisaƟon to mark or bag pay-and-display machines as “out of order,” including: a. Internal communicaƟons (emails or memos) which clarify the reasoning for the decision b. ClarificaƟon of whether such machines are considered decommissioned, temporarily out of service, or otherwise reclassified internally c. Any policies or instrucƟons issued to staff or contractors in relaƟon to this 4. Records of expenditure or procurement limited to non-commercially sensiƟve informaƟon relaƟng to: a. The purchase or supply of covers, signage or equipment used to render parking machines inaccessible b. The cost of installaƟon or deployment of said items (Note: I am not requesting pricing breakdowns, supplier bids or other commercially sensitive material, only records that show whether such expenditure occurred and, if so, on what basis.) My preferred form of access is electronic (email). Please feel free to contact me via email should any clarification be required.
- Received 20 October 2025Decided 14 November 2025GrantedGalway City Council
Category 1 - Copies of all correspondence, to include any communication by email or letter, any minutes of meetings and notes of phone calls exchanged with Galway County Council referring or relating to Planning Permission Reference Number 12/940 (ABP Ref. PL07.242316) and the subsequent Enforcement Notice issued in response of Carrowbrowne Temporary halting Site, Carrowbrowne, County Galway, from 01 January 2023 to present. Category 2 - Copies of all correspondence, to include any communication by email or letter, any minutes of meetings and notes of phone calls exchanged with the Department of Housing rereferring or relating to Planning Permission Reference Number 12/940 (ABP Ref Pl07-242316) and the subsequent Enforcement Notice issued in respect of Carrowbrowne Temporary Halting Site, Carrowbrowne, County Galway, from 1 January 2023 to present.
- Received 20 October 2025Decided 12 November 2025RefusedGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 13 October 2025Decided 10 November 2025RefusedGalway City Council
1. Details of the ICT budget and planned ICT projects or initiatives for the current financial year (2025/26). 2. Documentation outlining planned ICT procurements for FY 2025/26, including (but not limited to) hardware, software, ICT maintenance agreements, and related services.
- Received 13 October 2025Decided 10 November 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
I request access to the total Cost of INstallation, contracting and manufacturing of the memorial benches erected in Eyre Square in honour of Ronnie O' Gorman and C.I Flynn. These benches were unveiled on the 9th October 2025.
- Received 13 October 2025Decided 10 November 2025RefusedGalway City Council
Please let me have me have the records re lat ing to the revocation of the Section 5 Exemption granted to the above property in early 2025 (or in the a lternative , such records as do exist that indicate the proposed development could not be facilitated to conclusion under said exemption); as well as the records of communications between Galway City Council and the Departments of Justice and Environment and An Bord Pleanala and its successor An Coimisiun Pleanala from 1 June to 10 October 2025 (excluding those disclosed by Galway City Council per previous FOI request).
- Received 8 September 2025Decided 7 November 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Health & Safety & Risk Assessments and Signage in Silverstrand. 2020 to 12.09.2025
- Received 16 September 2025Decided 7 November 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
I request the following information from Galway City Council (discharging the functions of the Lough Corrib Navigation Trustees), under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act 2014, records of all communications both internal and external regarding the commencement of vehicle clamping at Steamers Quay (Riverside and Waterside), Woodquay, Galway from September 22nd 2025, as publicised by the Lough Corrib Navigation Trustees on September 9th this year via social media
- Received 9 October 2025Decided 6 November 2025WithdrawnGalway City Council
A breakdown of total expenditure by Galway City Council on emergency accomodaƟon for homeless individuals and families, including payments to private hotels, B&Bs, guesthouses and other temorary accomodation providers, for each of the past three calender years (2022, 2023 and to date in 2025) A list of accomodaƟon providers (including hotels and B&Bs) that recieved payments during that period, along with the total amound paid to each provider each year (2022, 2023 and to date in 2025)
- Received 9 September 2025Decided 30 October 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 3 October 2025Decided 30 October 2025RefusedGalway City Council
I request the following under Freedom of Information: All documentation, including correspondence to and from Galway City Council, pertaining to funding of the proposed infill social housing development at Munster Avenue within the past six months (From April 1 to Oct 3, 2025).
- Received 1 October 2025Decided 28 October 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
1. Vacant Homes • The total number of vacant properties identified by the Council each year (2021–2025). • The number of these that were inspected. • The number that were returned to use or removed from the vacant list each year. 2. Derelict Properties • The total number of properties on the Council’s Derelict Sites Register, broken down by year. • The number of inspections carried out on derelict properties each year. • The number removed from the register each year. 3. Enforcement & Action • The number of enforcement actions taken each year (e.g. warning letters, derelict site notices, fines, compulsory purchase orders), and the outcomes of those actions. • The number of properties compulsorily purchased by the Council each year. 4. Policy & Correspondence • Any correspondence between Galway City Council and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage regarding vacant or derelict properties during this period. • Any internal memos or guidance documents used by Council staff relating to vacant homes or derelict sites.
- Received 16 October 2025Decided 28 October 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
The amount spent on shuttering/securing properties in the last 12 months The number of homes that have been shuttered/secured in the last 12 months The average cost of providing emergency accommodation to a family (2 adults, 2 children or similar) The number of families in emergency accommodation by length of time in 3 monthly intervals
- Received 26 September 2025Decided 24 October 2025RefusedGalway City Council
Copies of all correspondence between housing officials and Tuath Housing in relation to the purchase and/or provision of social or affordable housing at Garrai na Saili, Letteragh Road Copies of all correspondence between the chief executive of Galway City Council and Tuath Housing in relation to the purchase and/or provision of social or affordable housing at Garrai na Saili, Letteragh Road Copies of all correspondence between *** and housing officials in relation to Tuath Housing and/or social or affordable housing at Garrai na Saili between June 7, 2024 and July 1, 2025 Copies of all correspondence between *** and the chief executive of Galway City Council regarding Tuath Housing and/or social or affordable housing at Garrai na Saili between June 7, 2024 and July 1, 2025 All records relating to the use of *** Garrai na Saili, Letteragh Road for the purpose of social or affordable housing between May 1, 2024 and July 1, 2024
- Received 29 September 2025Decided 24 October 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
• A copy of the most up-to-date version of the risk register; • A copy of the most up-to-date tracker for the implementaƟon of recommendaƟons from audits; (06.10.25 refined to Internal) • A list of all audits carried out in the last two years to include the month and year of the audit and the overall assurance rating; (06.10.25 Refined to Internal) • A copy of the three most recent internal audits; • A copy of the minutes of the last five audit and risk commiƩee (ARC) meeƟngs
- Received 8 October 2025Decided 17 October 2025WithdrawnGalway City Council
Specifically the reports submitted by Galway City Council to the EPA in accordance with the regulations for the following bathing waters: • All Galway City Council beaches Silverstrand Salthill Ballyloughane • All Galway City Council bathing areas Period 01.01.2020 to 08.10.2025
- Received 12 September 2025Decided 13 October 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
in relation to Keeraun Road, Galway City, for the period from 1 January 2023 to the present: • Records of complaints, reports, or correspondence received about road hazards, damage, incidents or protruding rocks on Keeraun Road. • Records of inspections, surveys, or maintenance works carried out on Keeraun Road. • Internal communications, memos, or records relating to public safety concerns on this road. Please provide these documents electronically where possible.
- Received 16 September 2025Decided 10 October 2025RefusedGalway City Council
I request the following information from Galway City Council, under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act 2014, records all documentation regarding the €3.3 million in EU funding secured by Galway City Council to pilot a hydro turbine project on the city’s canals. 24.09.25 Focus the FOI is on environmental preconditions that had to be satisfied before funding was received as Lough Corrib and river are part of the Natura 2000 network. 26.09.25 amending FOI for documents to include Habitats Directive 92/43 EEC compliance appropriate assessment screening and also compliance with Water Framework Directive 2000/60 EC.
- Received 12 September 2025Decided 9 October 2025GrantedGalway City Council
I am seeking all records relating to enforcement the local authority has taken against developers for failing to comply with their obligations under Part V to deliver 20% social/affordable housing. Please provide any enforcement notices, warning letters, correspondence and associated reports relating to the enforcement cases since March 2025
- Received 19 September 2025Decided 9 October 2025WithdrawnGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 4 September 2025Decided 2 October 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
a copy of all records held referring or relating to the decision of the city council to ban watersports, apart from swimming, from Silver Strand. This request to cover the unit with direct responsibility for the matter, the CEO's office, and any outside correspondence received by GCC and the responses that issued in each case.
- Received 4 September 2025Decided 2 October 2025RefusedGalway City Council
any complaints that have been made to the council for the build that is due to commence next week with planning ref 24/60156
- Received 1 September 2025Decided 30 September 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
1. RegistraƟons / authorisaƟons •Number of properties registered/authorised as short-term/holiday lets (by month/quarter). • Any breakdown available (enƟre home vs. room-only, apartment vs. house, city area/ED). 2. Planning permissions / exempƟons • Number of planning permissions granted/refused for short-term leƫng. • Records of any SecƟon 5 declaraƟons or exempƟons relied upon for short-term leƫng. 3. Compliance & enforcement • Number of complaints received about unauthorised short-term leƫng. • Number of inspecƟons carried out. • Number and details of enforcement acƟons (warning leƩers, Enforcement NoƟces, prosecuƟons, fines), including outcomes. 4. Policy/comms • Any internal guidance, memos or policy documents used by Council staff for assessing or enforcing short-term letting rules since 1 Jan 2021. • Any correspondence with the Department of Housing or other state bodies regarding short-term letting enforcement in Galway City in the same period
- Received 2 September 2025Decided 26 September 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
A copy of the record held by Galway City Council for all of the Councils transactions kept in any form, with regard to the lands recorded as owned by Galway City Council and registered as such with Tailte Eireann, under Land Registry Folio number 1 1 2570F, in the Parish of Rahoon, in the Electoral Division of SHANTALLA. In particular a copy of the record held in any form by the Council of all and any matter relating to Instrument number D20 1 3LR029 1 3 7R form which said Folio was founded. Also - kindly provide a copy of the record held by the Council of all of the particulars, i.e. cost(s), minutes of meetings etc, that were involved in, or related to the purchase and / or maintenance of the lands registered in the aforesaid Folio, during the period before and after all negotiations ’ relating to said purchase. Also - a copy of the record held by the City Council containing the decision making process to expend on such a land purchase.
- Received 29 August 2025Decided 24 September 2025GrantedGalway City Council
A list or breakdown of all residential properties owned by Galway City Council as of 29/08/25.