Government legislation requires all households with domestic wastewater treatment systems to register them.

Leitrim remains the area with the most amount of students enrolled across the 3 counties.

She believes it shows the gap is widening when it comes to where people live in this country.

County Leitrim saw the largest increase over the year with 483 more people on the live register then the same point last year.

116 houses were completed in the region during the last three months of the year, while nationally 9,148 new dwellings were built

The latest release from the CSO breaks down the percentage of BER rated homes by county up to December of last year.

Prices fell in the month of December by 0.2 per cent.

The figures from the Central Statistics Office show that 9% of people in the midlands and mid-west have not used the internet in their lives at all.