Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)

I acknowledge that two members of my party were involved in voting for the rezoning in question. However, my party called for and continues to call for an independent inquiry into events in Waterford and on the day it did so, the now-departed Minister stated there was no prima facie evidence for an inquiry in Waterford. He stated this even though all the members of the local authority in Waterford were interviewed as part of a Garda investigation prior to zoning land and they still went ahead and zoned the land. The Minister of State and the man who was sitting beside her do not think that it is in the public interest. It is fully within the public interest that the people have a right and an entitlement to know what happened in Waterford.

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