Fianna Fáil TD Niall Collins to make Dáil statement this week over Limerick property deal

Mr Collins will make a Dáil statement on issues around his wife's purchase of a site in Limerick in 2008. He has maintained that he and his wife had no financial interest in the sale of the site

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said that 'in hindsight' the Limerick TD should have recused himself from a local area committee meeting, but he said Mr Collins had not broken any laws and the land was sold at a time when he was no longer a member of the council. Picture: Leah Farrell/Rollingnews.ie

Fianna Fáil TD Niall Collins will make a Dáil statement this week on issues around his wife's purchase of a site in Limerick in 2008.

Mr Collins has maintained that he and his wife had no financial interest in the sale of the site in Patrickswell. He had been a member of the council's Bruff local area committee in January 2007 when councillors agreed to put the site on the open market, one month after a solicitor who acted for Mr Collins' wife had written expressing an interest in purchasing the site for use as a medical facility.