Bernard McNamara received more than €673,000 from MB McNamara Construction Ltd in 2016 — a company he acquired for a “nominal fee” that same year.

McNamara emerged from a £1.01bn (€1.139bn) bankruptcy in 2014. The accounts of the company, incorporated by McNamara’s family and associates in 2013 when the developer was still in bankruptcy, show the €673,000 payment to the developer was part repayment of a €1.2m loan it was given by McNamara, apparently in 2015.

Asked how McNamara could lend €1.2m to the construction company after his bankruptcy, a spokeswoman for the developer said the company was not required to publish further details.

MB McNamara Construction’s website shows that three of the four projects it has concluded since its formation have been for Denis