Media silence over Niall Collins story

Presumably because it would just give knobs like Paul Murphy a platform to bang on. Even SF aren’t making a big deal about this because their own councillors may have similar questions to answer in the future.

Collins has clarified the circumstances under which his wife enquired about the property, and that he didn’t have a pecuniary/beneficial interest in it when he attended the local meeting. What more does he need to do?

Ruining the country? In 10 years we have gone from bust to full employment, lots of high paying jobs, billions in additional tax receipts, reduced need to emigrate, high levels of savings on deposit etc. Yes, things could be a lot better in relation to housing, but bear in mind our population is now at its highest since The Famine.

If that is your idea of ruin, you should visit a country which is genuinely ruined, you would see how stupid your post is.

Glad to help.

Think you missed one of the most critical points the health service and if you had a child attending a hospital on a waiting list for 3 years and getting worse you would understand, but no big up FFG on being great, people being homeless, money wasted left right and centre. The likes of Collins, Troy etc are there for to grab as much of the pie they can and f ck everyone else. Give you an example of the health service in crumlin hospital if you get an appointment for out patients department the number on the letter does not get you through to talk to anyone just rings out, have highlighted this with management we were told that number is in an office that nobody works in and they would correct this straight away and guess what 6 months later this has not being done. Having spent 45 days straight and the wife doing nights in crumlin hospital you come back and tell me how great the FFG boys are who are under paying the hard working nurses and the admin doing f ck all and security staff a joke because their company is in with the Great FFG boys. Wake up and realise that the likes of Collins is out to screw everyone for his own gain.

But hasn't it always been FFG in some form or another in Gov?

All either party has wanted to do for the last 30 years is privatize everything in sight.

Problems in the health service = bring in private management consultants.

Not up to the job, for all everyone says our macro figures are great, I just don't see how that translates to better services/quality of life.

But clearly the likes of Collins, Crowe, Troy etc have other priorities.

Agreed not an easy job. Doesn't mean we should let the same crowd keep trying the same things and failing.

What does all that money on management consultants do? May as well just be taking wads of tax-payers cash and burning it.

The only purpose is that FFG can outsource another problem.

Is there any legal meaning to a property being up for sale? What's stopping anyone from putting anybody else's house up for sale on a property website apart from the site's terms and conditions? It's the power to form contracts at the end of the process is what counts IMO, and you don't get that here without a full council vote.

I assume there's some council procedure saying when they can advertise a sale, in Limerick presumably after a committee vote.

The management consultants tell the Government the way things should be done, but that does not mean it can be done. Imagine the uproar if the Government announced that tens of thousands of underperforming/un needed staff were being sacked from the HSE, now don’t kid yourself that SF would be able to do that.

Anyways, we digress, this has nothing to do with Niall Collins, and trying to conflate his situation with problems in the HSE, or stating that the country is in ruins, is clearly nonsense.

To sell it yes, but to put it up for sale? As in advertise and negotiate? Who's checking until contracts or physical access is needed? My point is, there's no special legal requirement to put something up for sale as it's a meaningless status in a legal sense.

That aside, in this situation the council has those things.