Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency

4:00 pm

Photo of Ciara ConwayCiara Conway (Waterford, Labour)
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Is it not the policy that first refusal should be offered to State bodies regarding buildings of significant interest? Is there a social clause to the effect that NAMA should offer housing to them? We know Dublin is a pressure point in terms of social housing. Should local authorities not have been offered that stock? Were they too slow to react? Mr. McDonagh said they have been. Is he saying they refused the stock or NAMA sold it to the private sector?