Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have said it before. They have sold apartments for €100,000 that could not be built for €200,000. Why the Government did not buy them itself, I do not know. NAMA has behaved like a secret organisation. It is not open to freedom of information and is staffed by bankers and so-called "property experts" who were recruited from the agencies that were bailed out by NAMA itself. Gerry Kearns points out that NAMA has not been charged with addressing issues of spatial justice or the public interest. Will the Tánaiste take on that mantle? We need spatial justice and to place the public interest at the heart of a housing strategy. The Tánaiste did not answer my question about whether she will push for a vacant site value tax. Will she do that in her official capacity?

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