Galway has country’s third highest number of spare rooms in houses

Galway has the country's third highest number of spare rooms in houses according to data from last year's census

Nationally, 390-thousand homes have at least two or more spare rooms which is 21 per cent of households

It's estimated there are 250-thousand spare rooms in Dublin, 139-thousand in Cork, and more than 73-thousand in Galway.

Lecturer in Social Policy at Maynooth University, Rory Hearne, says the rent-a-room scheme needs to be promoted more: