Results 81-100 of 103 for nama speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: I will go back to the loan sale. I preface what I am about to say with an apology as I know everything is easy until you go about doing it. This would not have been the easiest portfolio that NAMA dealt with. I acknowledge that. We have established today that it happened in one county, Donegal, and that an individual owned two companies on which loans were taken out. There was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...with a focus on the Workplace Relations Commission. The Department is available on 29 June. That is where the vacant slot is. A special report is due from the Comptroller and Auditor General on NAMA's progress in achieving its objectives. It is due to be published soon but we do not yet have a date. The other option is the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's, IHRB, financial...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: .... At our previous meeting on 13 July, we agreed the following engagements, and I will hold members' attention for a few minutes while we go through this. On 28 September, representatives from NAMA will appear before the committee with regard to financial statements 2022 and the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report, No. 116. That is on progress on achieving objectives as at...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed)
Chapter 11 - Social Housing
Chapter 12 - Land Aggregation Scheme.
Chapter 13 - Pyrite Remediation Scheme. (26 Nov 2020)

Brian Stanley: ...list and we do not have answers for such people. They are trapped for years. There are lands available. There are seven land aggregation scheme sites in County Laois, where they are transferred over into the NAMA for local authorities. They are there. Some of those sites are suitable. I also bring Mr. O'Connor's attention to a site being purchased by the local authority in...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (4 Feb 2014)

Brian Stanley: ...year. There are more than 100,000 people on the waiting list. Housing need has doubled. In County Laois the housing waiting list has more than doubled over the last four years. Fewer than 500 NAMA properties have been developed. Private rents are increasing. Some of the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, tenants who rely on social leasing are being moved on because landlords decide...

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: ...considerable cost and would require a significant outlay for what is being hailed as a temporary solution. We have the scandalous situation where a substantial number of properties are still on the books of NAMA and the IBRC. The properties could be provided and work could be completed on them for a fraction of the proposed cost of the modular housing. That would be far better than...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...later that the State could have built it for about half that amount. The company that the OPW partnered with, Spencer Dock Development Company, went into liquidation and had to be bailed out by NAMA. This entity here, the Oireachtas, had to rent back, or pay a charge - some people dispute the use of the word "rent" - of €25,000 a day for it afterwards. The Limerick tunnel is...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...the brother, which is very convenient, and the intimidation stops. We just cannot accept in this State that this is how we are going to do business, or that this is permissible. What I am not hearing from NAMA is if the chief superintendent in Donegal in the north-west region was contacted and sat down with, to see what could be done about this?

Social Housing Policy: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Sep 2015)

Brian Stanley: ...who are sitting on sites to either use them or lose them. There are 123 such sites in the county. In the short time I have available, I want to outline a few figures for the Minister of State. NAMA has made 6,500 residential properties available for social housing, according to my information and has made that known to the Minister of State's Department and to the councils. However,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...to deal with. I suggest that we use the meeting for that purpose. Is that okay? Are members happy enough with that? Agreed. I propose that we engage with the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, on 28 September to discuss its 2022 financial statements and the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report that has just been referred to, No. 116, which was published earlier today....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...that they are available to attend on 29 June. Another option is a discussion on the special report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the progress of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, in achieving its objectives. That report is due to be published soon, but we do not have a date for it. There is also the option of bringing in the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board,...

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Brian Stanley: ...the correspondence, and we now move on to the work programme for the months ahead. Some of our upcoming engagements are displayed on the screens. Tomorrow we will be launching our report on NAMA's 2019 financial statement and also the Report No. 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General, which concerns Project Nantes. On 9 and 10 December, we will have further engagement over two...

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)

Brian Stanley: ...or the social dividend for the people? The situation in which we find ourselves is absolutely ridiculous. The Government must do two things. First, it must seek to put those families who are waiting to be housed into houses. NAMA has identified 3,200 apartments and houses which are ready for habitation. It is somewhat shocking, therefore, that according to the most recent figures I...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Brian Stanley: ...not be matched with any affordable scheme and that is a reality. In parts of the country that is not the case. There are huge schemes of houses lying empty that are either with a receiver or with NAMA. Could we not take a more imaginative approach? Many people are caught in what is called the grey area. The income thresholds for local authority housing are too low. A person who...

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Sep 2014)

Brian Stanley: ...estates in the small village of Borris-in-Ossory, County Laois, at various stages of completion. Local authorities must be empowered to acquire such estates, irrespective of whether they are in NAMA or in receivership, through site resolution plans. The current situation constitutes a crisis. We need big initiatives, and the time for action is now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Brian Stanley: ...good. Social housing needs to be built outside Dublin also. Some people may say that the solution is to wave a magic wand but I would not agree. There are a number of solutions, however, one of which is to use some of the NAMA properties. We should try to get houses that are 80% or 90% finished into use as social housing as they waiting list for social housing has become longer. At...

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: ...enough homes to meet the needs of the 250,000 people who make up those 98,000 households that are on the waiting lists, and now we have the sight of unfinished estates lying dormant, some of them in the hands in NAMA. There are empty houses but there are people who do not have houses. In my county, there are 1,700 households languishing on the waiting list, yet houses lie unfinished in...

Income and Living Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Feb 2015)

Brian Stanley: ...were given a veto, which we pointed out at the time. This needs to be revisited and there needs to be a level playing pitch for people. The small people stuck with these mortgages do not have a NAMA. The number of people living in material deprivation and the number of children living in poverty are high. One sixth of people with a job, and 28%of children, are in poverty. I heard the...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2012)

Brian Stanley: ...the community sector. The savings from this measure - a paltry €6 million - are minimal. At the same time, the Government established the biggest and most expensive quango in the history of the State, namely NAMA. It is clear that the focus of the Government's attacks is on the community sector and the communities it serves. Based on the figures available, 31% of workers in the...

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: ...cobbling together a deal that would not satisfy anyone. Simply extending an unfair debt over a longer period does not make the debt any fairer. This evening's leaked news that IBRC may be liquidated with the assets going to NAMA, the debts sent to a bridging bank or the Central Bank - which will mean Joe and Mary Taxpayer picking it up - and creating a bond to push it down the road by...