The TD is the scion of a Limerick political dynasty and has consistently polled well, even at party low points
During his party’s time in opposition he served as Fianna Fáil’s spokesman on justice and the environment.He perhaps could have expected a senior ministry when Fianna Fáil returned to power in 2020 but for a controversy he was engulfed in the previous year that saw him lose his then front-bench role as jobs spokesman.
While he was a councillor in Limerick Collins was part of a local area committee that recommended disposal of the property in Patrickswell, Co Limerick in 2007. Collins has said that the process was “open” and “transparent” and he said that when the local area committee decided to recommend a sale, neither he nor his wife had any “pecuniary or beneficial” interest in the property.The allegations about the sale were first reported by the Ditch website – one of a series of stories it has published about Collins starting in February.
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