Dermot Bannon walks away from questions as he promotes housing development with Minister Darragh O’Brien

Dermot Bannon walks away from questions as he promotes housing development with Minister Darragh O’Brien

Senan Molony

Celebrity TV architect Dermot Bannon walked away from questions today after being asked about his TV programme’s promotion of grants from the Department of Housing.

The RTÉ Room to Improve show heavily promoted a series of grants and schemes – which the main opposition party says it will abolish – after Bannon enjoyed a private briefing in Minister Darragh O’Brien’s Department.