Minister 'misinterpreted the requirements' after failure to declare second house in Longford

Robert Troy said he had been “under the impression” that only property in his possession at the end of a given year needed to be declared

Today it was revealed that Robert Troy had sold a second house, this time at Clonbalt Woods in Longford town, to Longford County Council in August of 2019.

A Fianna Fáil Minister has said his failure to declare ownership of a second house he sold to a local authority, at a price double what he paid for it, happened as he had “misinterpreted the requirements for registering interests”.

Last week, Robert Troy, the Minister for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation at the Department of Enterprise, described his failure to declare the sale of a property in Mullingar to Westmeath County Council in 2018 as an “error”, and said he would be seeking to amend the Dail’s register of interests accordingly.