Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Please do. I cannot see them. I have asked the Minister to call in the county manager to explain what is going on. The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, offered the Department houses. The council gave me the range of reasons it had to reject properties offered by NAMA, through the Government housing agency and its mediator. When I put the question to NAMA it insisted that it was made quite clear to all agencies that any property handed over by NAMA to a housing agency would be fully remediated to the highest living standards and would be in full compliance with all construction and building standards. Who is codding who? NAMA also said that it was clear prior to hand over that any issues relating to legal title or financial matters would be sorted out. We are being fooled, going from NAMA to the housing agencies to the county councils back to the Minister and I know how hard he is working but it is not happening. If the Minister has leadership ambitions, and I wish him all the best, he will have to do better than this.

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