Issue arose over former junior minister Robert Troy's failure to declare sale of two properties he owned to two separate local authorities

By taking ownership of his actions in the Golfgate saga Calleary did the right thing at the right time

Dara Calleary's response to Golfgate contrasts with Coalition colleagues such as Simon Coveney and Barry Cowen — and not least Robert Troy, who stood down with a classic non-apology

Mr Calleary, who was forced to resign after the golfgate controversy, had been tipped for the role along with Kildare TD James Lawless.

It follows an admission by Robert Troy that a rental at his former family home had gone unregistered for nine months

My colleague Terry Prone listed nine brilliant ways to resign properly yesterday. I have three simple rules to follow if you want to avoid having to resign at all.

The former agriculture minister left his previous role after his involvement in the 'golfgate' controversy in 2020

In his resignation statement, the unfortunate Robert Troy objected to landlords being demonised. In factual terms, this is hairy

As revelation piled upon revelation, it became increasingly clear that Robert Troy's position was not tenable.

Regardless of whether Robert Troy believed the homes should be on the register, it stands to reason that any member of the Oireachtas who has a material or even circumstantial interest in a topic should let the House and, by extension, the public, know about it

Troy’s attitude to housing, not as a home but as property investment, is not an outlier, it is Government policy, which has led to the fiasco where €1bn a year, a quarter of the entire housing budget, goes to private landlords, writes Rory Hearne

Sinn Féin TD Johnny Guirke has been warned over any future slip-ups after it emerged one of his rental properties was not registered with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB).

It comes after it was revealed that junior minister Robert Troy had not correctly declared several properties on the Irish parliament’s official list of members’ interests in recent years

Mayo TD Dara Calleary, who stood down as minister for agriculture following the Golfgate scandal, is tipped as a frontrunner to replace Robert Troy at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said the resignation 'casts very serious questions' on the judgement of Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin

Dara Calleary is mentioned as a replacement as junior minister resigns due to omissions in his declaration of interests

Robert Troy's resignation comes against the background of an utterly broken housing market stacked against the have-nots

You can’t have a housing crisis like this one and a landlord minister acting in any sort of non-transparent way in terms of their property dealings – there's only one way for it to end

Mr Troy has been under intense pressure in the past two weeks over issues surrounding his declaration of property assets

Mr Troy called on Darragh O'Brien to support landlords seeking to evict tenants 

Meanwhile, Eamon Ryan has called for two formal investigations into the errors in declarations made by the Fianna Fáil junior minister.

Social Democrats co-leader Róisín Shortall says the Taoiseach needs to act after what she describes as a litany of errors

The Longford-Westmeath TD said that he currently either fully owns or part-owns 11 properties, nine of which are rented out.

Any contract entered into with a public body by a public representative worth in excess of €6,500 is to be declared each year under Ireland’s ethics laws.

On Friday the Irish Examiner revealed that Mr Troy had failed for nine months to register the rental of his former home in Westmeath with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB), a legal requirement.

The property has been rented since last November, according to a statement made by Mr Troy on Thursday and confirmed by the tenant on Friday.

Sipo has been in the news this week in relation to Robert Troy TD, but the organisation's recent review highlighted the body's lack of teeth when it comes to former government insiders getting new jobs lobbying their former colleagues. Sean Murray reports

If there are no penalties for consistently getting lists of assets wrong, and if selling houses to local authorities at a rate of knots is not something that needs to be declared, why would any TD bother to fill the declaration register out properly?

Fianna Fáil minister says he is satisfied his amended declarations now 'accurately reflect' all interests in properties

Robert Tory, who is a junior minister in Leo Varadkar's Department, failed to declare three properties, including a house that he sold to a local authority, at a price double what he paid for it

Robert Troy said he had been “under the impression” that only property in his possession at the end of a given year needed to be declared