Results 221-236 of 236 for nama speaker:John McGuinness

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

John McGuinness: In 2012 when Mr. McDonagh was before the committee, he mentioned several developers and property owners who were receiving payments from NAMA to help it work properties on its books. How many are still on the agency’s books? What kind of remuneration are they receiving?

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

John McGuinness: Is NAMA paying 167 individuals a total of €12.1 million?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)

John McGuinness: That is a fair point. Be it NAMA or any other body that appears before us, I will be guided by members if they believe that additional time or meetings - or even a full day meeting - are required. I take the Deputy's point on the number of hours that we sit with witnesses. If he believes that a further session is necessary after today's session - he is right that there is a great deal of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)

John McGuinness: The Deputy stated that NAMA was finalising a report for the Minister.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)

John McGuinness: Yes. I shall ask the clerk to inform NAMA that that is our intention. Are there other matters arising? Is our agenda for Thursday, 3 October 2013 agreed? We will meet the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The agenda consists of the 2011 appropriation accounts: Vote 7 - Superannuation Retired Allowances, and Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform....

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

John McGuinness: ...the Government or a Minister of the Government or the merits of the objectives of such policies. I welcome Mr. Brendan McDonagh, chief executive officer of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. I invite him to introduce his officials.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)

John McGuinness: ...the National Asset Management Agency regarding a briefing paper on matters to be considered at today's meeting, to be noted and published, and 3C.2, correspondence received 25 September 2013, also from NAMA, regarding the opening statement at today's meeting, to be noted and published. I will not read through the list of reports, statements and accounts received since the meeting of 19...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2013)

John McGuinness: ...Brennan has indicated she will come forward, so as soon as we have dates we can schedule them in our work programme. We are finalising the bank stabilisation report. We agreed to hear from NAMA first and then we will complete that report. It will be circulated to members in the next few weeks and we can then launch the report when it is completed. Are there any other matters in respect...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2013)

John McGuinness: ...of this month, and from that report we can schedule whatever work is required. Are there any other matters or business? We will agree our agenda for Thursday, 26 September 2013 when we will meet NAMA. The agenda will consist of NAMA's annual financial statements 2012. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2013)

John McGuinness: ...this cost the State millions of euro. The last figure I read was €58 million but if one takes into account that the banks have now taken over those loans through the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, it is in the hundreds of millions. Witnesses were invited to attend, but only one responded. Could a simple legislative measure not be provided to insist on such witnesses...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2013)

John McGuinness: In the context of what we might hear next week, representatives of NAMA and other witnesses can be considered, once we have an idea of where we are going with it. No. 3A.3 is correspondence, dated 23 April 2013, from Ms Niamh O’Donoghue, Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection, providing further information requested at the meeting of 14 March 2013. The...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (28 Feb 2013)

John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans the National Assets Management Agency has to accelerate the roll out of its 80:20 deferred payment initiative; if NAMA believes it will suffer a loss in respect of the sales undertaken to date as part of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10614/13]

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2010)

John McGuinness: ...we do and the protection offered by it through Germany and other larger countries is essential to future job creation, our markets and trade abroad. It was with some reluctance that I supported NAMA. It came at a time when we were in turmoil. We were looking back at a marketplace that had performed well, created jobs, and given us the appropriate level of taxes to spread equally across...

Written Answers — World Trade Negotiations: World Trade Negotiations (30 Apr 2008)

John McGuinness: ...the Director General of the WTO, Pascal Lamy and with each the chairmen of three key negotiating groups within the talks, namely Ambassadors Falconer, Stephenson and De Mateo covering Agriculture, NAMA and Services, respectively. I also travelled to meet trade Ministers in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia (because that important country is President of the EU Council) and I have...

Written Answers — World Trade Negotiations: World Trade Negotiations (30 Apr 2008)

John McGuinness: ...stand I cannot see the necessary, critical balance of benefits that would bring us the broader benefits we hope for. I would hope that the new texts promised by the Chairmen of Agriculture and NAMA negotiating groups will reduce our concerns about where the negotiations are currently taking us in terms of the direct and significant agricultural impact for Ireland, while setting a more...

World Trade Organisation: Statements (6 Mar 2008)

John McGuinness: ...and what is on offer right across the spectrum of that deal. We do not have that on this occasion, although we have the modalities within agriculture and the setting out of the text in terms of NAMA. There is little or nothing in the NAMA text that would encourage me to do a blind deal on the other pillars. We want to develop services within Europe, particularly within Ireland, against...