Junior Minister Niall Collins has confirmed that knew his wife had expressed interest in buying a site when he attended a Limerick council meeting discussing the matter.
He also clarified that he was never involved in the process to buy the site at the centre of the controversy.
Minister Collins attended a meeting of the Bruff Local Area Committee in January 2007 during which the sale of a plot of land in Patrickswell, Co Limerick, was initially discussed.
