The number of people on the waiting list for housing in Dublin has fallen, figures have revealed.
Dublin City Council received 14,672 applications for social housing support last January compared to 17,510 in March 2019.
The proportion of people applying for housing has dropped 16% over the last two years.
Additionally, the number of applications by migrants from the EU and UK have fallen from 19% to 15%.
Meanwhile, non-EU and non-UK applicants have gone up from 15% to 17%, RTE reports.
Additionally Irish applications for housing is down by 13% to 9,962 in two years.
The biggest decrease among non-Irish nationalities is for Polish applicants who used to account for the biggest number of applications but are now down by 33% to 584, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Romanian nationals top the list with 710 applications which are down 14% and Lithuanian applicants are the third-highest at 277 down 28%.
UK applications for social housing stand at the top among non-EU countries at 278 down by 15%.
Nigeria is second-highest on 201 down 31% and Somalia with 188 down 20%.
