One of the so-called independent TDs – himself a landlord – who is to effectively back government on the abolition of the eviction ban misled his local council to secure planning permission for a rental property.
Following interventions from junior minister Niall Collins in an already decided planning application, Limerick City and Council dropped a €10,000 development levy it had imposed on the applicant.
Niall Collins misled the Dáil in his statement defending the falsehoods in his 2001 planning application.
After losing his seat in the February 2011 general election, Eamon Ryan decided to be “sincere”.
Attorney general Rossa Fanning owns a rental property portfolio worth around €1.5 million.
Embattled junior minister Niall Collins has refused to explain the circumstances in which he secured an extension of time to planning permission for his house.
Niall Collins’s marriage certificate confirms he wasn’t living in his parents’ home at the time of his 2001 planning application as he claimed.
A letter from a property company that didn’t exist was submitted in support of a planning application for one of Niall Collins’s homes.
Fianna Fáil minister of state Niall Collins lied to conceal his homeownership in a successful planning application.
Ex-Fine Gael junior minister Damien English was forced to surrender a Florida investment property after he defaulted on his mortgage repayments.
Meath County Council’s chief executive signed off on a housing development for her son’s employer.
Sinn Féin’s director of finance, who serves on the party’s ard comhairle, illegally converted an office into a "wholly substandard" apartment – in which his tenant is still living.