Galway County Council

I wish to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2014 1. Latest figures on the number of applications from the Social Housing Waiting list in GCC including a breakdown of the list by family size and length of the list. 2. Latest figures on the number of applications to the social housing transfer list from Galway County Local Authority area. To also provide separate figures for the number of HAP recipients on the transfer lists. 3. Figures on the opening balance, expenditure and closing balance of the Part V fund from GCC for December 2016 and at present. 4. Figures detailing the number of individuals or households presenting to homeless services in GCC in each month in 2016 and to present in 2017, including the number of dependents of each person/household and breakdown by family size. 5. Figures detailing the amount of funding sought from the DECLG/DHPLG to provide emergency homeless accommodation for households in 2016 and to date in 2017 and the amount that was recouped from the DECLG/DHPLG for this purpose. 6. Figures detailing the number of social housing units that have been commenced by GCC since January 2015 and the date on which they were commenced. 7. Details of the number of approvals sought from the DECLG/DHPLG for social housing construction projects and/or acquisition of housing units for social housing, the number of units for which approval was sought and whether these approvals were granted or not from January 2015 to date. 8. Latest figures on the number of Vacant Social Housing Units owned by GCC in 2017. 9. Statistics on the average time it takes for GCC to return a social housing unit that has been vacated back to productive use. 10. The no. of applicants to the tenant (incremental) purchase scheme to date, including the no. of successful and unsuccessful applicants to the tenant (incremental) purchase scheme to date and a breakdown of the reasons given to applicants for not approving their application