Stephen Donnelly is not considering his position as controversy over his rental properties rolls on.

Speaking at Dublin Castle today he said his failure to register one of his rental properties with the Residential Tenancies Board was an “oversight”.

He said the property, which should have been registered in 2019, was registered this week.

It comes after Robert Troy last week resigned his position as junior minister over his failure to declare rental properties on the Dáil register.

Minister Donnelly said he takes responsibility for failing to register with the RTB – but he won’t be considering his position.

“Can I say first of all, that it shouldn’t have happened,” he said.

“The responsibility is mine. It is a longstanding tenancy. It was registered in 2011, it was renewed in 2015, it should have been renewed in 2019.

“That’s my fault, it was an oversight. I’m not considering my position but as I said, it shouldn’t have happened, it is my responsibility and as soon as I found out about it, I followed the same process that everybody has to.”

The admission has led to questions over his personal interests when lobbying for better tax treatment for 'accidental landlords' in past.

In response, Stephen Donnelly compared it to lobbying for increases in child benefit, and being a parent.

“We all use the health care system so should we declare that we are beneficial recipients of the health care system?” he said.

“We all pay tax. I have lobbied for increases in child benefit and many other things.”

He said there “is an interesting question to be asked” about whether politicians should declare any potential benefit from any policy.