Robert Troy's failure to declare properties: 'I'm embarrassed I got it so wrong'

Any contract entered into with a public body by a public representative worth in excess of €6,500 is to be declared each year under Ireland’s ethics laws.

Robert Troy added that he won’t be identifying the properties in question “as there are tenants living there as their home”. File photo: Collins

Minister of State Robert Troy has apologised for not declaring property interests, saying he is “embarrassed I got it so wrong”.

Mr Troy, who has come under intense pressure for buying and selling certain properties, and his rental of others, in the past 10 days, said the “root of the problem” is that he had “misinterpreted” the rules on declarations of assets.