England 2018 bid chief executive Andy Anson downplayed the issue over accommodation, describing it as a "technical formality", and promised to have organised the required 60, 000 hotel rooms before the end of September deadline.

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This was a good-faith effort to try to reach an accommodation while still protecting the institutional prerogatives of the executive branch, often championed by these same Republicans criticizing us now.

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"This was a good-faith effort to try to reach an accommodation while still protecting the institutional prerogatives of the executive branch, often championed by these same Republicans criticizing us right now, " White House spokesman Eric Schultz told CNN.

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The report also revealed that in 2000, a whistle-blower had alerted the executive to an employee who had accepted "excessive hospitality" by staying in accommodation in the USA owned by the director of a firm which went in to become part of Red Sky.

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However, he said the Housing Executive was working with voluntary organisations in an attempt to provide people in such circumstances with temporary accommodation.

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"We were trying to contact the Housing Executive because people couldn't put on the electric and so we had to get alternative accommodation, " he said.

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