Opposition TDs say they will not tolerate another statement in the tumbleweed hours
he did it when was his opponents’ backs were turnedJust like that Kit-Kat ad where a panda nips in and out on roller-skates when the photographers waiting hours to take its photograph turn away to enjoy a chocolatey snack.He might as well have been on roller-skates when he darted in and out of the near empty Dáil chamber at the tumbleweed time of day and delivered a brief statement at speed, catching everyone on the hop.
Then nothing until early March, when the very reluctant Collins was carted into the chamber without notice. He lived to fight another day. The subsequent chain of events leading to the eventual sale of the land two years later is at the centre of the latest controversy. The then Cllr Collins attended a council subcommittee meeting where an official proposed that the land be put up for sale on the open market. All seven councillors present agreed.
In fact nothing happened for over a decade when she finally received permission to build a terrace of five two-storey houses.The Ditch published its story last week. The Minister of State finally issued a statement on Monday night. It’s didn’t calm matters. Paul Murphy of People Before Profit took to the plinth to say he would be raising the sale, and the involvement of the then councillor Collins in agreeing that the land should be sold by the council.
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