For decades, Government policy has been to outsource social housing to private landlords while telling them that they needn’t bother with common public supply transparency obligations. This is coming back to bite one of their own.
It is often said that Irish officialdom routinely favours landlords with better protection and more advantageous rules. The past year’s battle to obtain information on HAP recipients appears to confirm this.
The war in Ukraine shows the need to expose money laundering structures routed through Ireland by applying the “many eyes principle,” says Transparency International Ireland’s John Devitt.
The complex corporate web used to manage the Coolmore horseracing business and its owners’ other investments makes it difficult to estimate their wealth. This matters for a number of reasons – and Magnier’s position on the national rich list is the least of them.
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