Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien has suggested that one of the possible reforms of ethics rules for politicians could be declaring accommodation “arrangements” TDs and senators have with local authorities.
It comes after it was revealed that junior minister Robert Troy had not correctly declared several properties on the Dail's official list of members’ interests in recent years.
The Fianna Fail TD for Longford-Westmeath resigned this week following mounting pressure and a call from the Green Party leader Eamon Ryan for two probes into what he called “significant errors” in his declarations that he claimed undermined trust in the political system.
