Fianna Fáil junior minister Niall Collins is expected to make a Dáil statement this afternoon to address the controversy over the sale of council land to his wife in 2008
FIANNA FÁIL JUNIOR Minister Niall Collins is expected to make a Dáil statement this afternoon to address the controversy over the sale of council land to his wife in 2008.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar gave his backing to Collins last Thursday, telling reporters that he had full confidence in the Fianna Fáil TD. The decision to sell the land was taken at a full council meeting, following the decision a year earlier by the Bruff local area committee to sell off the land.The Bruff committee was one of five local area committees on the old Limerick County Council, which was then made up of seven local councillors.At its monthly meeting in January 2007, the committee opted to recommend that the sale of the land be put to a full council vote.
The land was then purchased by O’Connor in 2008 at a cost of €148,000, following a full vote by Limerick County Council to sell the land. At this stage, Collins was no longer a councillor having been elected to the Dáil.
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