Search

07 Mar 2026

Stephen Donnelly admits failing to register Dublin rental property

Stephen Donnelly admits failing to register Dublin rental property

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has admitted he failed to register a rental property in Dublin with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB).

A spokesman for Mr Donnelly said it was due to an “oversight” but that it has since been corrected.

The spokesman said that Mr Donnelly owns a Dublin property with a long-standing tenancy.

“That tenancy was registered and renewed with the RTB on a number of occasions (2011 and 2015) and is currently registered,” he added.

“Due to an oversight, the tenancy registration was not renewed in 2019 when it should have been.

“The RTB indicated that this should be backdated online, which was done last week.

“The minister’s interests have been fully declared every year on the Dáil register of members’ interests.”

It is an offence to fail to register a tenancy with the RTB within one month of the tenancy commencing.

The blunder comes after Robert Troy resigned as a junior minister last week.

Mr Troy left the role after admitting to a number of errors in declaring properties on the Irish parliament’s register of interests.

He has since amended his declarations on the Dail Register of Members’ Interests.

To continue reading this article,
please subscribe and support local journalism!


Subscribing will allow you access to all of our premium content and archived articles.

Subscribe

To continue reading this article for FREE,
please kindly register and/or log in.


Registration is absolutely 100% FREE and will help us personalise your experience on our sites. You can also sign up to our carefully curated newsletter(s) to keep up to date with your latest local news!

Register / Login

Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.

Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.