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- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: To just sit there and laugh is unbelievable.
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: The Minister can talk about straight faces all he likes. The Minister is the person who said there is no prima facie evidence. There is a criminal conviction.
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: What about Waterford?
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: I am not.
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: I am not trying to misinform the public. Waterford is a local authority like the other seven local authorities. Is the Minister of State saying that there is no issue in Waterford?
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: A man was sent down for six years who had nothing to do with the zoning and who did not have a vote, yet councillors went ahead and voted through a zoning when a Garda criminal investigation was taking place. Does that mean anything to the Members opposite?
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: What does it mean to them? They sit there and they laugh. What does it mean for their credibility as Ministers, the credibility of their parties, or the credibility of the planning process? It is a complete disgrace.
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: I am not a complete disgrace. This is a matter in the public interest-----
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: -----and the Minister of State is doing the bidding for the other-----
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: We are having an honest debate.
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: Why was Waterford not chosen?
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: So there was a finding of corruption in Waterford, yet the Minister of State wants to know nothing about it.
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: She does not want to know what happened in Waterford.
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: I am not distorting anything. Why does the Minister of State not come in here and demand to know, in the public interest, what happened in Waterford?
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: The court convicted one person. What about the people who zoned the land while a Garda investigation was going on?
- Planning Issues (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: The Government has no credibility.
- Septic Tank Registration Scheme (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: Question 4: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the position regarding the septic tank registration system; the timeframe for its implementation; the reasons for the delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31299/12]
- Septic Tank Registration Scheme (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: We discussed this at length on Committee Stage last Tuesday so I will not delay the House in that regard. On a related matter concerning local authorities, can the Minister inform us when he intends to commence the review of the local authority electoral areas?
- Household Charge (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: Apart from the previously aired issues regarding the household charge, namely, that it is unfair and inequitable and we have had examples quoted of the millionaire having to pay the same amount as the unemployed person in negative equity, has the Minister any plans to take it to the next level where local authorities which collect the charge in their areas would administer and spend it in...
- Property Taxation (28 Jun 2012)
Niall Collins: When will the Minister publish the Thornhill report and will this be in advance of his policy decision on property tax?