SIPO hearing into complaints against former junior minister Robert Troy to be heard in June

The Fianna Fáil TD had failure to declare properties between 2020 and 2022
SIPO hearing into complaints against former junior minister Robert Troy to be heard in June

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A hearing into complaints made against former junior minister Robert Troy will be held next month, the country's ethics watchdog has announced.

Mr Troy resigned as junior minister in August 2022 after revelations that he had failed to declare properties on the Irish parliament’s register of members’ interests correctly and also failing to register a rental property with the Residential Tenancies Board.

The investigation focused on the Fianna Fáil TD’s failure to declare properties between 2020 and 2022, under section 23 of the Ethics in Public Office Act.

Following the revelations, Mr Troy subsequently corrected the Dáil interests register, before he resigned as a junior minister.

At the time he said that he wanted to assure the public “that I have not tried to conceal anything”.

“My biggest offence is my lack of due diligence. However, one issue in isolation is excusable but the number of errors now that are of my making directly or indirectly has led me to this decision,” he said.

While he apologised for the “upheaval” the controversy caused, he said he wished to stress that “they were genuine errors and human errors and were not intentional”.

A statement from the Standards In Public Office Commission (SIPO) said: "An Investigation Hearing into alleged contraventions of the Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995 and the Standards in Public Office Act 2001 by Deputy Robert Troy will be held by the Standards in Public Office Commission...on 10 June 2024."

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