An Bord Pleanála (ABP) hasn’t had a key policy for conflicts of interest for at least seven weeks – despite all the controversies the authority has been mired in for the last year.
Two members of the Irish Professional Auctioneers and Valuers Association (IPAV) governing council have resigned in the past few months over corporate governance and financial transparency failures. The organisation is set to hold its AGM in Dublin at the end of the month.
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A former Fine Gael TD sold a nursing home he co-owned to a charity despite being one of its directors.
A Fianna Fáil minister of state appointed a constituency ally and party diehard, who has claimed he’ll “kick blueshirts any time”, to a €400-a-meeting-plus-expenses state position without interview.
Limerick County Council members relied on the decision of Niall Collins and a handful of his colleagues to dispose of a site when they voted to sell it to the junior minister’s wife.
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Residents of a housing estate pleaded with Limerick County Council not to sell a children’s recreational site to junior minister Niall Collins's wife.
Fianna Fáil junior minister and ex-county councillor Niall Collins voted to sell council-owned land that was bought by his wife.
In February 2022, during leaders’ questions, Mary Lou McDonald accused Fianna Fáil of exacerbating the housing crisis by giving preferential treatment to so-called cuckoo funds.
A single Irish fund, already one of the biggest landlords in the state, has in the last six months bought more than 150 second-hand homes.
I don’t think Limerick is “looking into the abyss as a city” unless the state gives more funding to its local gardaí.