The Minister is due to give the Dáil his version of events in a statement today.
that was put up for sale when he was a councillor.alleges Minister Collins’ wife, Eimear O’Connor, had expressed an interest in buying the property before the matter came before the council and then-Cllr Collins did not properly recuse himself when a vote was held.After the allegations were published, Minister Collins published a statement insisting that when the property was put up for sale, “He also noted he was no longer a councillor when the sale of the property went through in 2008.
“Leo Varadkar, Minister Helen McEntee, Minister Paschal Donohoe - all three of them made a statement and took questions from the opposition,” he said.“This is the second time now that he’s going to come before the Dáil, make a statement and just walk away.Junior Minister Niall Collins speaking to the media at Leinster House in February 2020. Picture by: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie“serious matter” and the public need to have confidence in their public representatives.
“The public need to know that the planning system… of selling publicly-owned land is beyond reproach,” he said.is of public concern and, indeed, if you have not declared a pecuniary - which is a financial interest or a beneficial interest - then that is an indictable offence, that is a criminal offence.”said then-Cllr Collins should have recused himself from the vote on the grounds his wife had previously expressed an interest in the property.
“It’s a meeting of the council - there’s minutes of that meeting - and he didn’t make it clear that they had a potential interest in that,” he said. “He didn’t recuse himself and, indeed, the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and Minister Eamon Ryan have all said he should have done that.Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he is confident Minister Collins has not breached the provisions of the Local Government Act.
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