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Donnelly paid €100 fine over late RTB registration of tenancy

Minister for Health admits oversight in not registering his tenancy on apartment he owned in Sandyford in Dublin as an ‘accidental landlord’

Stephen Donnelly, Minister for Health: Donnelly has been backed to continue in his ministerial role by the three coalition party leaders. Picture: RollingNews.ie

Stephen Donnelly, the Minister for Health, has paid a €100 fine to the state rental watchdog for failing to register a tenancy for the past three years.

It comes after a controversy about the non-declaration and non-registration of rental properties involving Robert Troy, the Fianna Fáil TD, who subsequently resigned his position as Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise.

Speaking to reporters at Dublin Castle today, Donnelly said it had been an oversight ...