{"id":330660,"date":"2026-02-10T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/330660\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T22:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:51:14","slug":"garret-doocey-new-housing-tsar-appointed-after-brendan-mcdonagh-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/330660\/","title":{"rendered":"Garret Doocey: New \u2018housing tsar\u2019 appointed after Brendan McDonagh controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Career civil servant taking over \u20ac3bn budget not quite the \u2018outsider\u2019 that was promised\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Garret Doocey has been chosen to lead the Government's new Housing Activation Office\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/de0b5312-a6b7-488d-8a8d-bd16acd70551.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Garret Doocey has been chosen to lead the Government&#8217;s new Housing Activation Office<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Whether would-be housing tsar Brendan McDonagh would have succeeded in the role now held by Garret Doocey, we will never know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Whether Mr Doocey himself proves successful is another matter entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Career civil servant taking over \u20ac3bn budget not quite the \u2018outsider\u2019 that was promised Garret Doocey has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,92909,13413,18,13,14,6,3847,8752,19,17,4770,11,12,15,16,4852,24132,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-330660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-conal-thomas","tag-dart","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-housing","tag-housing-crisis","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-james-browne","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-metrolink","tag-nama","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116048788498942767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}