Niall Collins

Minister of State Niall Collins will make a Dáil statement about a 2001 planning application he made to build a house.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Dáil that Mr Collins is hoping to make a statement in the Dáil today. The Social Democrats have called on Mr Collins to take part in a questions and answer session in the Dáil on the issue. He will make a request to the Ceann Comhairle to make the statement at the earliest opportunity.

Decision to address Dáil follows allegations on The Ditch website relating to Patrickswell house.

He said he would address the Dáil after getting a copy of the planning file. He noted that in 2004 he was elected as a councillor to Limerick County Council “and thereafter the council introduced a new planning policy in relation to housing need”. The website claimed that as part of Mr Collins’ 2001 planning application, he was required to show that he hadn’t previously owned a home in what Limerick County Council called a “pressure area”.

The junior minister in the Department of Higher Education will be asking the Ceann Comhairle for permission to come before the house to make a statement, ...

However, it is understood Mr Collins is still awaiting full information relating to his planning application and will be waiting until he has all of the details before coming before the Dáil. The junior minister in the Department of Higher Education will be asking the Ceann Comhairle for permission to come before the house to make a statement, sources have said, in response to Junior Minister Niall Collins is to make a statement to the Dáil once he has obtained the full information, it is understood.

LIMERICK TD Niall Collins has said he met the requirements of a planning permission he sought more than 20 years ago. It comes amid claims that the Fianna .

Questo sito utilizza cookie di profilazione, propri o di altri siti, per inviare messaggi pubblicitari mirati. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: [email protected]. The statement reads: "In 2001, I applied to Limerick County Council for planning permission, in my own name, on lands owned by my father in Patrickswell Co. Russell Road in Dooradoyle Limerick was not in the ‘pressure area'." At that time I met the requirements for planning permission in the area – known as the ‘pressure area’. Keep up to date with the latest Limerick Sports Star news in Limerick and County Limerick

The Fianna Fáil TD and junior minister is disputing allegations made by The Ditch.

Separately the property I owned on the Fr. Russell Road in Dooradoyle Limerick was not in the 'pressure area'. "Tomorrow I will request a copy of my planning application of 2001 from the Council but I am satisfied that at all times I have acted correctly in my planning application and in my instruction to a planning agent in relation to the application on my behalf. Limerick," the statement reads. "In 2004 I was elected Cllr to Limerick County Council and thereafter the Council introduced a new planning policy in relation to housing need. The publication reported yesterday that the junior minister applied for planning permission for a home in Limerick in 2001 but failed to state that he already owned a home he had bought with his wife two years earlier.

Fianna Fail TD Niall Collins has insisted his application adhered to the rules at the time.

“At that time, I met the requirements for planning permission in the area – known as the ‘pressure area'. “Tomorrow, I will request a copy of my planning application of 2001 from the council but I am satisfied that at all times I have acted correctly in my planning application and in my instruction to a planning agent in relation to the application on my behalf. A junior minister is seeking to make a statement to the Dail about a Limerick planning application he made in 2001.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that Junior Minister Niall Collins is seeking to make a Dáil statement today about his 2001 planning application.

He said this was permitted under the planning rules in 2001 because the Dooradoyle home was not in a "pressure zone" where a housing need had to be shown. This was an area where planning applicants had to demonstrate a housing need, but Mr Collins owned a house in Dooradoyle in Limerick City at the time. In 2001, Mr Collins successfully applied for planning to build a home in Patrickswell in Limerick.

The Fianna Fáil TD was responding to claims made about him by website The Ditch in relation to the application.

“At that time, I met the requirements for planning permission in the area – known as the ‘pressure area’. “Tomorrow I will request a copy of my planning application of 2001 from the Council but I am satisfied that at all times I have acted correctly in my planning application and in my instruction to a planning agent in relation to the application on my behalf,” he said in the statement. Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Minister for Enterprise Simon Coveney said that Collins’s statement was “very clear” in stating that he “acted appropriately at all times in the context of that planning application”. Collins said he “acted correctly” in a planning application he made in Limerick in 2001. Collins said he was elected as a councillor to Limerick County Council in 2004 “and thereafter the Council introduced a new planning policy in relation to housing need”. In a statement yesterday evening, the Limerick TD said he applied to Limerick County Council for planning permission in 2001 in his own name, on lands owned by his father in Patrickswell, Co Limerick.

ALL three Government leaders have expressed full confidence in Junior Minister Niall Collins as he battles back against allegations about a planning p.

Russell Road in Dooradoyle Limerick was not in the ‘pressure area’. He added: “I am satisfied that at all times I have acted correctly in my planning application and in my instruction to a planning agent in relation to the application on my behalf. “At that time, I met the requirements for planning permission in the area – known as the ‘pressure area’.

Fianna Fáil TD Niall Collins has stated that he "acted appropriately" when applying for planning permission for his Limerick home over 20 years ago.

Russell Road in Dooradoyle Limerick was not in the ‘pressure area’. “At that time I met the requirements for planning permission in the area – known as the ‘pressure area’. “I am satisfied that at all times I have acted correctly in my planning application and in my instruction to a planning agent in relation to the application on my behalf. Labour’s Aodhán Ó Ríordáin said that the “accusations are serious”. When he was asked in the Dáil on Tuesday afternoon by Labour leader Ivana Bacik if Minister Collins could make a statement, the Taoiseach advised that he had agreed to do so and was “seeking time to make a statement.” It comes as the Fianna Fáil TD agreed to make a statement to the Dáil in relation to planning permission he obtained for his Limerick home in the coming days.

Gary Gannon of the Social Democrats and People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett both said he should answer questions on the issue. Mr Collins was first ...

On Tuesday, Labour TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin said the accusations made by The Ditch were “serious” while noting Mr Collins had rejected them. In a statement issued after the article was published online, Mr Collins confirmed he and his wife owned a property on Fr Russell Road in Dooradoyle but it “was not in the pressure area”. It is expected he will address this in his personal statement to the Dáil. At a post-Cabinet briefing on Tuesday, spokesmen from all three Coalition parties expressed “full confidence” in him. However, he said he would not do so until he has read the full 2001 planning file, which he received from Limerick County Council on Tuesday afternoon. The Ditch has claimed Mr Collins owned another property with his wife Eimear O’Connor, in Dooradoyle, Limerick.

Minister of State Niall Collins will make a Dáil statement about a 2001 planning application he made to build a house. Newstalk Political Correspondent Sean ...

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Another TD said it is “impossible” to tell if Mr Collins is in trouble as yet and they are “awaiting his statement”. Mr Collins confirmed on Monday night that he and his wife owned a property on Fr Russell Road in Dooradoyle but he said it “was not in the pressure area”. There had been suggestions that Mr Collins would make a personal statement addressing “all the circumstances” of the planning application in the Dáil on Wednesday or Thursday.