The HSE awarded a longtime partner a €2 million contract without tender for an “independent review” into this summer’s ransomware attack, according to records released to The Ditch.

A well-known Dublin property investor purchased six flats from a receiver earlier this year and has re-let them with rent increases of up to 116 percent.

Half of Fine Gael’s trustees are investor landlords. The party’s longest serving trustee owns over 30 rental properties, according to land registry records.

A former ministerial driver for Paschal Donohoe and Fine Gael constituency treasurer, Martin Sadlier, has tried to enforce unlawful evictions for Prussia Street landlord the McGrath Group.

The 23 Prussia Street landowners relied on a court order that expired over three years ago for last month's attempted eviction at the site.