Leo Varadkar and Darragh O’Brien’s housing conference is to be dominated by property lobbyists – including the group that has claimed credit for selling the idea of strategic housing developments to government.

Fine Gael minister of state Damien English has not declared his ownership of a residential property for more than a decade. The Meath West TD defaulted on mortgage repayments for the house and

I don’t care about decency. At least not the decency we speak of when it comes to elected officials nor the standards we use to measure their moral probity. And I don’t care for Micheál Decency Martin’s time as taoiseach.

The DPP only requested a file on the death of a man in garda custody following the intervention of a TD. This course of action by the DPP is highly unusual with the common practice involving gardaí sending the file without a request being made.

Gardaí in Waterford gave statements concerning the death of a man in their custody that contradicted medical professionals who attended the scene.