Galway City Council
FOI Requests — 646 records (page 3 of 13)
- Received 15 May 2025Decided 23 May 2025WithdrawnGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 22 April 2025Decided 20 May 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
1. In your Local Authority’s (LA) Water Services Department prior to the effective date where Uisce Eireann (UE) took over operational control of that section what was the staffing structure within that said section for both indoor staff and outdoor workers who were directly employed by your LA. I do not need to know the staff numbers involved but do require a list of the grades involved i.e. Outdoor workers an example of which could include, General Service Supervisors, Craftspeople (of various grades), Caretakers and General Operatives. Indoor staff which could include, Senior Engineers, Senior Executive Engineers, Executive Engineers etc. and including Administrative staff etc. Where a grade could have sub grades for example in the case of craftspeople where the term craftsperson could encompass Craftspeople, Foreman Craftspeople, Assistant Foreman Craftspeople or Senior Craftspeople etc. I would require these sub grades to be included. 2. Again pertaining to your LA’s Water services section and the grades therein did Trade Unions make enquiries to your organisation for the purpose of the transition to UE in order to ascertain what grades your LA directly employed in its Water Services section, in particular I refer to Forsa, LAPO SIPTU, SIPTU and Connect. If enquiries were made for this purpose was information sought by the aforementioned Trade Unions regarding the day to day roles and duties of outdoor workers in particular in order to ensure that any roles to which they were to be mapped to within UE were in agreement with their day to day roles and responsibilities in addition to any extra duties outside of the strict remit of their contracts of employment and their stated grade. 3. In the circumstance where a grade within UE may not have existed within your LA how was or is it proposed to fill these roles for example were roles filled on the grounds of seniority or were they filled by interview or by confined interview.
- Received 23 April 2025Decided 20 May 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
The number of Council owned homes currently vacant by length of vacancy in 6 monthly intervals in tabular form (i.e 0-6 months, 6-12 months etc) - The amount provided for in your Budget 2025 expenditure list for housing maintenance and the amount of this for proactive, non-emergency maintenance - The number of social homes owned by your local authority for which you hold maintenance responsibility (i.e exclusive of AHB managed properties) - The number of maintenance requests received in 2024
- Received 9 April 2025Decided 13 May 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
• The total number of vehicles your organisaƟon currently owns or operates. • The total number of electric vehicles your organisaƟon currently owns or operates. • The total number of vehicles your organisaƟon currently owns or operates that use telemaƟcs. • A copy of the most up-to-date policy or guidance document (or other similar document/advisory/guidance) that covers, underpins, or relates to council decisions over vehicle fleet purchase, and in particular choosing whether those vehicles should be diesel, petrol, electric, hybrid, or use telematics. • A copy of the council’s EV strategy
- Received 23 April 2025Decided 9 May 2025GrantedGalway City Council
Data on 2024 and 2025 (to date) social housing waiting lists in Galway City, broken down by waiting time and family size.
- Received 11 April 2025Decided 7 May 2025GrantedGalway City Council
A record of parking tickets issued within the Galway area within the last twelve months. I am basically looking for the amount of tickets issued in the City and Salthill areas please.
- Received 17 April 2025Decided 7 May 2025Handled outside of FOIGalway City Council
The number of social housing applications made to the local authority from all non-Irish national categories (e.g. UK national, EEA-national, non-EEA national, etc.) outlined in the Department Circular Housing 41/2012. The number of social housing applications accepted by the local authority from all non-Irish national categories (e.g. UK national, EEA-national, non-EEA national, etc.) outlined in the Department Circular Housing 41/2012. The number of social housing applications ultimately allocated social housing by the local authority from all non-Irish national categories (e.g. UK national, EEA-national, non-EEA national, etc.) outlined in the Department Circular Housing 41/2012. The number of social housing support applications made to the local authority from all non-Irish national categories (e.g. UK national, EEA-national, non-EEA national, etc.) outlined in the Department Circular Housing 41/2012. I would like to receive electronic copies of whichever records contain this information, whether they be pre-existing or newly created from pre-existing records as per Section 17(4) of the Act. I am interested in documentation dating from January 1, 2013 to present.
- Received 29 April 2025Decided 6 May 2025Handled outside of FOIGalway City Council
My Constituent desires a list of the currently available social housing in possession of the Galway City Council.
- Received 11 April 2025Decided 30 April 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 21 March 2025Decided 28 April 2025RefusedGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 26 March 2025Decided 24 April 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
1. The proporƟon of individuals or enƟƟes currently paying the Vacant Site Levy. 2. The number of properƟes removed from the Derelict Sites Register in the past two years. 3. The number of properƟes added to the register in the past two years. 4. The process by which properƟes are transferred from the Vacant Sites Register to the Derelict Sites Register under the Derelict Sites Act 1990. 5. The reasons for which properƟes are removed from the Derelict Sites Register. 6. The number of properƟes currently undergoing works to address vacancy or derelicƟon.
- Received 25 March 2025Decided 23 April 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 19 March 2025Decided 17 April 2025GrantedGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 21 March 2025Decided 17 April 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
I would like to obtain data on road traffic accidents in the following areas: Galway City Specifically, I am requesting: 1. The number of recorded road traffic accidents in each area for the past five years (2019–2024). 2. A breakdown of the data by year, severity (fatal, serious, minor), and locaƟon (if available). 3. Any reports, summaries, or staƟsƟcal analyses relaƟng to accident trends in these areas.
- Received 31 March 2025Decided 15 April 2025GrantedGalway City Council
CAN YOU PLEASE CONFIRM IF THE PANEL FOR THE GALWAY CITY COUNCIL 2023-2025 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER CAMPAIGN IS STILL ACTIVE? IF THE PANEL IS STILL ACTIVE, CAN YOU PLEASE PROVIDE THE NUMBER OF CANDIDATES SUCCESSFULLY RECRUITED TO GALWAY CITY COUNCIL FROM THE PANEL OF THE 2023 – 2024 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER RECRUITMENT CAMPAIGN, BROKEN DOWN BY PANEL I.E. THE NUMBER OF CANDIDATES RECRUITED FOR PANEL A, THE NUMBER OF CANDIDATES RECRUITED FOR PANEL B, AND THE NUMBER OF CANDIDATES RECRUITED FOR PANEL C. IN ADDITION, CAN YOU PLEASE CONFIRM THE DATE ON WHICH THE PANEL IS DUE TO EXPIRE? IF THE PANEL IS NO LONGER ACTIVE, CAN YOU PLEASE CONFIRM THE GENERAL DATE ON WHICH THE CANDIDATES WERE MADE AWARE THAT THE PANEL WAS CLOSING?
- Received 28 March 2025Decided 11 April 2025GrantedGalway City Council
The commercial viability report regarding the Pálás Cinema presented to the Council in February as referred to in this article from RTÉ: https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0302/1499677-palas-cinema-galway/
- Received 6 February 2025Decided 9 April 2025WithdrawnGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 13 March 2025Decided 2 April 2025RefusedGalway City Council
I hereby formally request per the Freedom of Information Act 2014, that any documents for the period 2018 to present submitted by Customer ID***** to the Rates Offices relating to the calculation of Rates for his/her property be made available to me.
- Received 10 March 2025Decided 1 April 2025Handled outside of FOIGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 21 March 2025Decided 31 March 2025Handled outside of FOIGalway City Council
I would like to request minutes/records of local council meetings. They are likely in archive Council Meetings/Special Meetings held - December 1985 January, February, March 1986
- Received 5 March 2025Decided 28 March 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
I request all information related to the acquisition of a piece of land to erect a bus shelter in Seamount, Salthill, Galway between 2016 and 2024. I attach a picture of the bus shelter to avoid confusion.
- Received 21 March 2025Decided 28 March 2025GrantedGalway City Council
The number of houses / apartments currently owned by your local authority which are vacant. The number of individuals currently on the housing waiting list. The total number of people currently in receipt of HAP. The total number of people currently availing of RAS. The total number of houses owned by your local authority. The total number of persons in emergency homeless accommodation provided or paid for by your local authority.
- Received 6 March 2025Decided 25 March 2025GrantedGalway City Council
Please supply the number of parking tickets issued and number of parking fines for since 2023 to date for Ashgrove Road, Newcastle. GALWAY
- Received 19 March 2025Decided 25 March 2025RefusedGalway City Council
A list of upheld complaints made against councillors to the Ethics Officer or Ethics Committee within the council, since January 2025. Please include the name of each councillor and the nature of the upheld complaints, if any. Also indicate what action, if any, was taken by the council in response to the upheld complaint. Searches of any relevant mobile phones, private email addresses and/or messaging services should be considered when processing this request.
- Received 20 February 2025Decided 24 March 2025GrantedGalway City Council
• A copy of your ArƟcle 30 record of processing acƟviƟes for your housing department. • A copy of your ArƟcle 30 record of processing acƟviƟes for your data protecƟon office/department. Article 30 of the GDPR places an obligation on controllers and processors to have in place within their organisations a detailed record which accurately identifies the activities the organisation carries out which use personal data. Where such is not complete or in progress or does not exist, I request records that indicate the progress of such (plans for progression) and (records which demonstrate/confirm/)confirmation that such has been included on an appropriate risk register for your organisation.
- Received 25 February 2025Decided 24 March 2025RefusedGalway City Council
I request a copy of the allocated housing budget granted to your Local Authority Area for 1: social housing, whether rental, purchase or through third party (ie HAP) and 2: funding for traveller specific accommodation, from 2020 to 2024. I also request the totals of the amount that was spent on 1: social housing, in all its forms. And 2: the total spent on traveller specific accommodation from 2020-2024. Refinement/Clarification: 06/03/2025 Request relates to capital & acquisitions, money allocated to GCC for this, and money spent – (so not total social housing spend).
- Received 20 February 2025Decided 21 March 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 24 February 2025Decided 20 March 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 19 March 2025Decided 20 March 2025WithdrawnGalway City Council
I seek the following records held by the city's fire brigade as of March 1st 2024: - Copies of all training materials currently in use by the fire department, including (but not limited to) manuals, presentations, and guidelines.
- Received 21 February 2025Decided 19 March 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
1. All documents and information relating to warning letters issued under Section 152 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000 (as amended) concerning bars, taverns, nightclubs, social clubs, or other such venues for violation of requirements to obtain permission to sell alcohol or operate a bar. 2. All documents and information relating to enforcement notices issued under the Planning and Development Act, 2000 (as amended) concerning bars, taverns, nightclubs, social clubs, or other such venues for violation of requirements to obtain permission to sell alcohol or operate a bar. 3. Any records of investigations, site visits, or other enforcement actions taken in relation to the above-mentioned establishments regarding planning permission for alcohol sales or bar operations. 4. Records of any submissions made in response to warning letters or enforcement notices by the owners or operators of the aforementioned establishments. 5. Any internal correspondence, reports, or decision documents related to the issuance of warning letters or enforcement notices for the specified venues. 6. Any reports bearing statistics that give one an understanding of the number and details of enforcement actions taken against bars, taverns, nightclubs, social clubs, or other such venues. The time period for this request is from January 1, 2018, to the present date.
- Received 19 February 2025Decided 13 March 2025RefusedGalway City Council
The total number of “hospitality” businesses that paid commercial rates to the council in each of the years: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. The total combined value of all commercial rates paid by these “hospitality” businesses in the years outlined above.
- Received 26 February 2025Decided 10 March 2025WithdrawnGalway City Council
The amount of money made available to your local authority throughout 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 for traveller accommodation sites. The amount of money drawn down by your local authorities for use on traveller accommodation sites in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Received 27 February 2025Decided 10 March 2025RefusedGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 27 January 2025Decided 5 March 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Copies of all documents relating to the Bailey Point complex at Upr Salthill, Galway received and / or issued between the *** and or their agents, ie ***, Tuam Rd, Galway and the planning office of Galway City Council between 1st January 2010 and 1st January 2025. Some communications could be in the names of *** Refined 06.02.2025 For all records in the planning conditions imposed that related to the structural defects of the Bailey Point Complex building for the period 01.01.2015 to 01.01.2025
- Received 27 January 2025Decided 5 March 2025RefusedGalway City Council
Copies of Tenancy Agreements for property at Lios an Uisce
- Received 4 February 2025Decided 5 March 2025RefusedGalway City Council
I request records on what if any software system your various departments use to track cases/representations logged by counsellors. If there is a central cast tracing system I would like the name of that system. Case tracking software can come in many forms and I am looking to find out which departments have case tracking systems and which do not. If they don't, a brief description of how they track cases would help
- Received 5 February 2025Decided 5 March 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
I am formally requesting the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2014. concerning the Audited Annual Financial Statement for the year ending 31 December 2023. concerning Lough Corrib, and the Eglinton Canal. (1) I request all information concerning the work carried out on Eglinton Canal and Parkavara lock gates, which cost 41,097. Specifically, I am requesting all documents, contracts, dates work carried out, receipts and evidence of all expenditure to the total cost of 41,097, relevent to this work. (2) I am requesting the same information and documents relevent to work carried out on The Claddagh Basin and lock gates to the amount of 35,914
- Received 5 February 2025Decided 4 March 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
All correspondence between Galway City Council and Galway Chamber pertaining to commercial rates from January 1 2023 and December 1 2024
- Received 28 February 2025Decided 4 March 2025WithdrawnGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 28 February 2025Decided 4 March 2025WithdrawnGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 28 February 2025Decided 4 March 2025WithdrawnGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 6 February 2025Decided 3 March 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Personal File
- Received 26 February 2025Decided 28 February 2025Handled outside of FOIGalway City Council
I request the following under the Freedom of Information Act: Records/a log of all exhumations that were carried out in Bohermore cemetery in the years 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020, and subsequently reinterred in different plots in the same cemetery
- Received 23 January 2025Decided 27 February 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
• The number and type of vehicles decommissioned/replaced Galway City Council, in 2022, 2023, 2024, • The number of decommissioned/replaced vehicles sƟll in the possession of Galway City Council (e.g. those that are no longer in use, but have not yet been scrapped or sold) • The number and type of vehicles that are due to be decommissioned/replaced by Galway City Council in 2025, • The total esƟmated monetary value of these vehicles broken down by year, as well as the total estimated value of any vehicles that are no longer in use but have not yet been scrapped or sold, • The average cost of decommissioning such vehicles and/or the total cost of decommissioning vehicles per year, from 2022-2025.
- Received 29 January 2025Decided 26 February 2025GrantedGalway City Council
• Records of annual expenditure on road maintenance, broken down by year from 2022 to 2024 inclusive. 2. Pothole Complaints • Records relaƟng to the total number of pothole complaints received, broken down by year from 2022 to 2024 inclusive. 3. Pothole-related Damage Claims • Records relaƟng to the total number and value of damage claims related to potholes made by motorists, broken down by year and by quarter from 2018 to 2024. • Records relaƟng to the total number and value of damage claims related to potholes paid out by Galway City Council, broken down by year and by quarter from 2018 to 2024.
- Received 25 February 2025Decided 26 February 2025WithdrawnGalway City Council
I would like to request the following information: - any information containing the following companies or names: ********* - any information or documents containing tenancy information or sales on **** Forster Ct., Galway,********
- Received 28 January 2025Decided 25 February 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Final Traveller Accommodation Programme 2025 – 2029 (the “TAP”); A copy of any submissions received by GCC as part of the consultation in preparation of the TAP; Any documentation relied upon by GCC in projecting the accommodation needs of Travellers in the TAP, including GCC’s Assessment of Accommodation need analysis; Any documentation received from Galway County Council which was relied upon by GCC in the preparation of the TAP; and A copy of any correspondence between GCC and the Galway Traveller Movement, and with the Local Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee respectively, between 4 January 2024 to date, regarding the TAP.
- Received 23 January 2025Decided 20 February 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
TENDER DOCUMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DOUGHISKA ROAD SOUTH CYCLE NETWORK SCHEME, WHICH INCLUDED WORKS CARRIED OUT ALONG DOUGHISKA ROAD FROM ITS JUNCTION WITH THE R921 AND THE RAILWAY TRACKS SOUTH OF ITS JUNCTION WITH THE ROS CAOIN ROAD, WHICH WORKS WERE UNDERTAKEN PRIMARLY DURING 2023 (CORRESPONDENCE, IF ANY, ISSUED TO TENDERERS/CANDIDATES/APPLICANTS DURING THE TENDER PERIOD IS ALSO REQUESTED), AND ALL RECORDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DECISION/DECISIONS TAKEN TO OMIT DELINIATOR POSTS BETWEEN CHAINAGE 0+140 AND 0+220 (LEFT HAND SIDE/EAST SIDE OF THE DOUGHISKA ROAD) AS SHOWN ON DRAWING NUMBER 5193732 / HTR / DR / 0166 REV E, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED ON GALWAY CITY COUNCIL’S WEBSITE AS PART OF THE SECTION 38 PUBLIC CONSULTATION PROCESS FOR THE PROJECT, FROM THE TENDER DOCUMENTS (IF THAT WAS THE CASE) OR FROM THE COMPLETED WORKS (IF THEY WERE INCLUDED IN THE CONTRACT DOCUMENTS AND IF A DECISION WAS MADE NOT Part 1: As per your telephone conversation and clarification regarding part 1 of your request with ***, on Friday 14th February 2025
- Received 4 February 2025Decided 19 February 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
Record relating to the cost of installation of the three “smart solar-powered benches” installed across the city in Salthill, Ravens Terrace, and Eyre Square
- Received 11 February 2025Decided 19 February 2025Part-GrantedGalway City Council
I request the following under Freedom of Information: Copies of all invoices pertaining to Galway City Council’s investment in three solar powered smart benches including for the supply and installation of this infrastructure