Results 21-39 of 39 for nama speaker:Joan Collins

Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: ...is the key factor. That has been the failure of both the previous and the current Governments. When I was a member of Dublin City Council in 2010 and 2011, I tabled an emergency motion regarding NAMA handing over properties. We had a housing crisis then at that level. A member of the Labour Party, Deputy Eric Byrne, produced a leaflet in 2010 stating that Dublin was in the grip of a...

Bank Bailout and EU-IMF Arrangement: Motion (5 Apr 2011)

Joan Collins: .... We will be forced into the 2013 EU bailout package which involves debt restructuring. This will expose Irish banks which hold €11 billion in Irish sovereign bonds and €11.5 billion in NAMA bonds. Second, the banks are reliant on the State guarantee. Can the Central Bank maintain emergency liquidity funding? Third, major questions arise regarding Ireland's ability to grow out of...

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: ...yet to declare any and that is also the case in Cork, Galway and Limerick. There are too many loopholes and the fee is too low. It is having no effect. For example, the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, sold land to developers with a potential for 50,000 units but only 3,000 have been built. There is enough zoned land nationally to build half a million homes but, at the current...

Homelessness: Statements (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: ...from €1,300 to €1,600, a 23% increase. There are many people in the complex on rent supplement and many people who are privately renting. Only weeks ago these apartments were transferred from NAMA to IRES REIT, backed by a foreign investor. These people are being regarded as cash cows now as opposed to people who need a home to live in. These investors are coming in and...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (3 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: ...s lives. I wish to put on the record of the House the details of an e-mail I received from people in an apartment block in Crumlin. The developer went into receivership and the apartments were in NAMA but were taken over by a vulture capital company. Tenants received notice that rent was to increase from €1,300 per month to €1,600 within 28 days and this will have a big...

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Joan Collins: ...14,300, despite all of the other tenants who will come onto the housing list in the coming years. This plan is incredibly destructive. We have enough publicly-zoned land controlled by the State, Dublin City Council, the other councils and NAMA to build 100,000 homes. That is what we need to do to solve the crisis.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: ...of local authorities and State companies, could use existing zoned land, borrow off the books and quickly commence a programme to build 10,000 public housing units per annum. The word "NAMA" should not be used in the same sentence as the phrase "public and social housing". The National Asset Management Agency was established to bail out banks and developers. Its role in Project Eagle...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: ...streets has increased from eight to 16 per month while five children a week are going homeless. The Government has allowed this to happen over the past three years. Five years ago I tabled a motion before Dublin City Council calling for NAMA properties to be taken over by local authorities. We knew the crisis was beginning at the time and now we are witnessing the naked face of...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2021)

Joan Collins: ...out of someone else. The proposal to build 6,000 so-called affordable homes over the next four years will not con anybody; it is actually pathetic. Sufficient zoned land is available through local authorities and NAMA to make a significant dent in this crisis. It means, in the main, building public houses, the majority with affordable rent and security of tenure with some of the land...

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: ...Cabinet Minister responsible for housing and planning and a housing authority or agency responsible to the Minister responsible for housing. The authority would incorporate some land and asset management of NAMA as that agency winds down. Other aspects of a solution include restoring Part V so that all new developments must have at least 20% social housing in the mix; providing for the...

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: ...the bank would have to buy the property. There is a figure from the Department of Finance of €14 billion to reduce mortgages in line with actual value, but this is nothing compared to the cost of NAMA and the bank bailout. Independent economists question this figure. If the write-down was restricted to the average family home or apartments and buy to let examples and trophy homes were...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Joan Collins: ...crisis is unnecessary. He has put together information which indicates that 114,000 dwellings could be built on zoned land owned or controlled by the State. Within local authorities and NAMA there are over 3,000 ha of such land - 17% of all undeveloped zoned land in the State. Approximately 70,000 of these dwellings could be built in Dublin, thus eliminating the housing waiting lists of...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: ...debate, there are other ways to raise money to fill the fiscal space everybody talks about such as corporate taxation, the Apple issue and the potential bill of between €17 billion and €19 billion, NAMA and credit unions being able to provide funding of between €2 billion and €4 billion for housing and taking the pressure of cutting other services if water...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: .... The mortgages were for 35 years with interest at 50% of the going rate to make them affordable. Will the Minister consider a similar scheme to meet today's needs. Between the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, and local authorities there is sufficient publicly-owned land to build 100,000 housing units. We know that. This has not only been reported, but scientifically proven....

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: ...the proposals in the report. This is a conservative estimate of the additional funds required. The lack of urgency in addressing the housing and homelessness crisis is simply mind-boggling. The budget provides €750 million in credit for developers to be administered by the developers' friend, the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. This is an insult to the 8,000 homeless...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: ...review. The man told me it was an incredible rise justified in the notice as reflective of the current market value. One of the biggest gripes in this instance is that ownership of the apartments was transferred only weeks ago from NAMA to I-RES REIT, backed by a foreign investor who is just coming in to grab profits. People are facing huge increases in their rents. With these impacts...

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2012)

Joan Collins: ...and could be invested in social and job-creation initiatives in our communities. It could be used to finance schools building projects, support community projects, etc. In addition, some of the properties in NAMA's pool that are sitting idle could be given to communities and used to create jobs. Such a development would inject life into these communities. Some €70 billion is held...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Joan Collins: ...by the establishment of a new public agency outside the Government sector to focus on planning, financing and delivery of social housing. The agency could co-ordinate the work of local authorities, housing associations and NAMA, but, crucially, it could borrow off-balance sheet to develop the substantial amount of State-owned land suitable for development, especially around Dublin....

Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: ...and that it is terrible for people not to have homes. I do not trust these people - I will keep it clean - as far as I could throw them. They created the disaster we face, they made money back on their losses through NAMA and now they find themselves back on their feet. The reason Mr. Barrett is back on his feet is that he had more international investments than Irish investments. These...