Career civil servant taking over €3bn budget not quite the ‘outsider’ that was promised

Garret Doocey has been chosen to lead the Government's new Housing Activation Office

Garret Doocey has been chosen to lead the Government’s new Housing Activation Office

Whether would-be housing tsar Brendan McDonagh would have succeeded in the role now held by Garret Doocey, we will never know.

Whether Mr Doocey himself proves successful is another matter entirely.