FIANNA FÁIL’S NIALL Collins has said he is in “absolutely no doubt” that his actions in relation to the sale of Limerick County Council land was “at all times legally correct”.
“However, when I did attend, it was my full understanding and it remains the same today that I was not participating in a discussion or a decision that in any way contravened the 2001 Local Government Act. No law was broken.Sale of land The decision to sell the land was taken at a full council meeting, following a proposal by the Bruff local area committee a year earlier to sell off the land.
“It was agreed at the area committee meeting that the property should be sold on the open market,” he added.Minutes taken from that meeting, released under FOI, state that those present at the meeting were “in favour of disposal” of the land. He added that the property went on sale on the open market with an independent auctioneer appointed by the county council.