Apparently this is fine. After the Robert Troy scandal, the Dáil committee on members’ interests convened and decided property in close family members names doesn’t have to be registered.
Also property that doesn’t generate income doesn’t have to be registered. that includes vacant property they own, homes in the city that they allow their children to use freely during college, any properties of that variety don’t have to be recorded.
Put them all in wives name. Feck me it’s brazen
Successive government’s policies on housing have poisoned the idea of property owning politicians. I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next election we see a race to the bottom in terms of candidates extolling their virtue of not owning any property other than their own home or the ones that are renters using their living situation as proof that they ‘get it’.
They have nobody to blame but themselves.
Ouch. The standard drug dealer move…
I am shocked and beside myself.
Yet if i go to the welfare I have to declare my spouse’s income and assets
Just resting in her name…
*Inserts Benny Hill Music*
House five? Or is this house six?!?
If you are taxed together because of marriage you should have to declare assets together.
Fair enough. I don’t own a car because it’s registered in my wife’s name.
And sure wasn’t Owen O’Callaghans money just resting in Micheals wife’s account that time too.
Move on ,nothing to see here.
And the other 4 houses, i think 2 holiday homes?
The money was just resting in my account until I moved it on
Waiting for Leo to come out and blame SF for deleting Micheál’s apartment from the register.
They’re scum but also ‘person breaks no laws or rules’
There are lots of naive idiots on here who always point to the stats about the politicians who’ve declared owning property and claim the percentage is low, so there isn’t much conflict of interest for our politicians dealing with the housing crisis. Same clowns would downvote anyone for suggesting that they most likely have it all in their spouse’s name. Yet here is the head of state, proving that this is certainly happening
Property is one of the best/main investments in this country due to our stupid tax setup on other options, and our politicians and senior civil servants are high earners who will have more disposable income to invest with. Anyone giving them the benefit of the doubt and thinking they’re not using that to invest in property is a fucking fool
Shlimey things are gonna do shlimey things
In other news, water is wet, fire is hot, bears crap in the woods and the pope is catholic…anyone actually surprised about this ??
Is this a newer (2nd) apartment in his wife’s name or the same one was long known about? The article doesn’t mention.
Those anti corruption index bullshit is quite funny seeing as literally the slightest media scrutiny into our governments assets has shown so much already, shame the media are complicit, a full blown investigation would see half the Dáil reassign
Grand so
I remember this happening before…
And so what. That is how the rules work. Properties or assets in spouses names arnt required to be registered by a TD.
This feels a bit like the story yesterday about the Taoiseach flying first class to the UN. He’s the Taoiseach. Of course he should be flying first class.
Loosing sight a bit here in what’s important and as usual just going scattergun
Where’s the legal(?) wrongdoing? Is it outdated guidelines saying if it’s not explicitly in your name you don’t have to declare it? Or is it Martin playing dumb?
I realise the moral wrongdoing is all of the above + more
Another rotten parasite caught out
Just like the crime lord The General. This isn’t mine it belongs to my wife
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Apparently this is fine. After the Robert Troy scandal, the Dáil committee on members’ interests convened and decided property in close family members names doesn’t have to be registered.
Also property that doesn’t generate income doesn’t have to be registered. that includes vacant property they own, homes in the city that they allow their children to use freely during college, any properties of that variety don’t have to be recorded.
Put them all in wives name. Feck me it’s brazen
Successive government’s policies on housing have poisoned the idea of property owning politicians. I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next election we see a race to the bottom in terms of candidates extolling their virtue of not owning any property other than their own home or the ones that are renters using their living situation as proof that they ‘get it’.
They have nobody to blame but themselves.
Ouch. The standard drug dealer move…
I am shocked and beside myself.
Yet if i go to the welfare I have to declare my spouse’s income and assets
Just resting in her name…
*Inserts Benny Hill Music*
House five? Or is this house six?!?
If you are taxed together because of marriage you should have to declare assets together.
Fair enough. I don’t own a car because it’s registered in my wife’s name.
And sure wasn’t Owen O’Callaghans money just resting in Micheals wife’s account that time too.
Move on ,nothing to see here.
And the other 4 houses, i think 2 holiday homes?
The money was just resting in my account until I moved it on
Waiting for Leo to come out and blame SF for deleting Micheál’s apartment from the register.
They’re scum but also ‘person breaks no laws or rules’
There are lots of naive idiots on here who always point to the stats about the politicians who’ve declared owning property and claim the percentage is low, so there isn’t much conflict of interest for our politicians dealing with the housing crisis. Same clowns would downvote anyone for suggesting that they most likely have it all in their spouse’s name. Yet here is the head of state, proving that this is certainly happening
Property is one of the best/main investments in this country due to our stupid tax setup on other options, and our politicians and senior civil servants are high earners who will have more disposable income to invest with. Anyone giving them the benefit of the doubt and thinking they’re not using that to invest in property is a fucking fool
Shlimey things are gonna do shlimey things
In other news, water is wet, fire is hot, bears crap in the woods and the pope is catholic…anyone actually surprised about this ??
Is this a newer (2nd) apartment in his wife’s name or the same one was long known about? The article doesn’t mention.
Those anti corruption index bullshit is quite funny seeing as literally the slightest media scrutiny into our governments assets has shown so much already, shame the media are complicit, a full blown investigation would see half the Dáil reassign
Grand so
I remember this happening before…
And so what. That is how the rules work. Properties or assets in spouses names arnt required to be registered by a TD.
This feels a bit like the story yesterday about the Taoiseach flying first class to the UN. He’s the Taoiseach. Of course he should be flying first class.
Loosing sight a bit here in what’s important and as usual just going scattergun
Where’s the legal(?) wrongdoing? Is it outdated guidelines saying if it’s not explicitly in your name you don’t have to declare it? Or is it Martin playing dumb?
I realise the moral wrongdoing is all of the above + more
Another rotten parasite caught out
Just like the crime lord The General. This isn’t mine it belongs to my wife
So it’s not his then. Its his wife’s?