Michael Healy Rae's property firm receives €1.33m for accommodating Ukrainians
Gordon Deegan
A property firm owned by the Minister for State, Michael Healy Rae TD (Independent), has received €1.33 million in State payments for accommodating Ukrainians fleeing the war with Russia since 2022.
New figures provided by the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration show that the Minister for State at the Department of Agriculture’s Roughty Properties Ltd, trading as Rosemont House, received €113,480 for accommodating Ukrainians in 2025.
This followed the firm receiving €1.22 million in the two years and three months prior to January 1st 2025 for accommodating Ukrainians at its Tralee address.
Recently filed accounts show that Roughty Properties Ltd recorded post tax profits of €241,244 in the 12 months to the end of May 2025.
The post tax profits were a 36 per cent decline on the post tax profits of €376,048 for the prior year.
The profits last year resulted in the company having accumulated profits of €1.08 million at the end of May last.
In 2025, the Kerry TD was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with special responsibility for Forestry.
The €113,480 paid to Minister Healy Rae’s Roughty Properties Ltd last year is a tiny fraction of the €425.49 million paid out to all operators providing accommodation to Ukrainians under the Government’s International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) last year.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Justice said that Roughty Properties, trading as Rosemont House, continued to provide accommodation services to the State in 2025, delivering services for a 12-month period, and remains under contract with the Department to accommodate people fleeing Ukraine.
The responsibility for the sector passed from the Dept of Integration to the Dept of Justice during 2025 and the spokeswoman said that the €113,480 paid to Roughty Properties for accommodation for people fleeing the war in Ukraine across was the amount paid by both Departments to the firm for the entirety of 2025.
The recently published Dáil Register of Interests shows that Minister Healy Rae remains the biggest landlord in the Dáil owning 28 properties and pieces of land.
Minister Healy Rae described his occupations along being a politician as a postmaster: farmer: service station owner: plant hire and owner of rental properties.
Separate accounts for Minister Healy Rae’s plant hire firm, Roughty Plant Hire Ltd show that accumulated profits dipped by €27,737 from €808,909 to €781,172 in the 12 months to the end of April 30th last.
This followed accumulated profits increasing by €74,885 in the prior year. The company’s cash funds last year decreased from €434,224 to €409,218.
Accounts for Minister Healy Rae’s service station firm, Black Cap & Co Ltd show that it recorded post tax profits of €24,132 in the 12 months to the end of April 30th last.
