State the ideal trouble-free tenant for cash-starved landlords

AFTER bailing out big-time property developers, taxpayers are shelling out millions in rent every year to some of those same developers to house the offices of the state.

State the ideal trouble-free tenant for cash-starved landlords
Mon, 12 Jul, 2010 - 01:00
Conall Ó Fátharta

Latest figures from the Office of Public Works show the State is paying almost €117 million in rent every year to keep the show on the road.

Unsurprisingly, it’s some of Ireland’s best known property developers who are the recipients of the rent windfall.

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