Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Page 24 of the programme for Government states that the Government will request NAMA to review its business plans to encourage it to be more ambitious in the area of housing delivery. It is something of which NAMA always reminds us in its annual report. Last week a receiver notified residents in Riverwood Hall in Carpenterstown that they would be evicted, that is, nine households and up to 30 residents. It is shocking that has occurred in our constituency. Over the weekend, one of the residents was notified by the receiver that NAMA was one of the main parties to this eviction. It is highly inappropriate that NAMA, as a State agency, is circumventing the law, in the context of the Residential Tenancies Act and the Tyrrelstown amendment, is undermining the legislation the Taoiseach and his Government enacted and is deliberately evicting residents. It undermines everything that is in the programme for Government.

I want to know everything the Government intends to do to address this and what the Taoiseach's view of NAMA is given that it is circumventing legislation introduced by his Government and is central to an eviction process which will turf out residents from their homes where they will face homelessness. This shows a dysfunction in housing policy that is occurring on our doorstep.

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