Results 241-256 of 256 for nama speaker:Enda Kenny

Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2009)

Enda Kenny: As the Taoiseach is set on this road, perhaps he might answer a few questions. We are proceeding to commence with a debate on the Government's NAMA Bill, which will not be the legislation that will emerge at the end of this process, principally because the Taoiseach's partners in Government and members of his own party have yet to decide what further changes they will demand. Will the...

Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: I am not just saying this for the sake of having a vote. I really mean it. I assume that the proposed date of 16 September is because of the publication of the NAMA legislation, or that the House is coming back to discuss that legislation. Last week the German Government put through its legislation dealing with their bad banks and it has already settled on a price level from mid-2008 for the...

Order of Business (9 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: .... If not, I assume the nine unpublished Bills will go on the list for the autumn session. I hope there will be clarity from the Tánaiste on when the House will be expected to return to deal with NAMA. I have received correspondence from the editors of The Irish Times and the Irish Independent, major national newspapers, and they make a point on the importance of having a team of...

Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: They will now have to pay this tax. I was interested in the remarks made yesterday by the Taoiseach who said that we need to have a thorough discussion about the NAMA legislation, which is right and proper. I want to know when the legislation will come before the House, for two reasons. First, there is a crisis with substantial numbers of people with whom banks will not deal because they...

Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: The point I am making is that there will be further substantial job losses unless some movement is made in bank credit and overdraft facilities in the meantime before NAMA becomes operational. In that context, and arising from the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government having to go to the Attorney General in the middle of the night, when NAMA acquires a substantial...

Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: When will we see the NAMA legislation coming before the House? The Taoiseach has confirmed that the Government supports the appointment of José Manuel Barroso as President of the European Commission. Given the crisis facing Europe, including Ireland, it is important that the Commission has a President as soon as possible after the European Parliament elections.

Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: Excuse me, I asked a question about whether the legislation dealing with NAMA is coming before the House.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: There is a crisis in the pre-NAMA period. There is serious concern among a range of enterprises over banks declining to give any credit or overdraft facilities because they assume that particular developers and so on will be taken over by the NAMA regime. This is a crisis in the intervening period. In the light of the Taoiseach's comments this morning, let us have a debate about the...

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: ...and providers to main contracts. There is real crisis, exacerbated by the fact that many suppliers of service and contractors in the construction area are now in complete limbo in the pre-NAMA phase because the banks no longer care and there is no money forthcoming. The current forecast for capital expenditure projects in 2009 is €7.3 billion. Will the Taoiseach confirm that will be...

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: ...on this and when can we expect the Bill to come to the House? Second, has the Taoiseach any further detail on whether the Dáil will be recalled in September to deal specifically with the NAMA legislation? That seemed to be the indication last week. Third, on 20 March last, the then Minister of State with responsibility for fisheries, Deputy Seán Power, made an announcement to the effect...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: ...is aware that my party has a very different view from the Government's on the proposals to deal with the banking crisis, in particular with regard to the National Asset Management Agency or NAMA. Obviously, the confusion that surrounds this is a cause of major concern, particularly when bodies like the IMF say that the difficulty for Government is in determining the extent of the...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Government apparently remains intent on bailing out banks through taxpayer recapitalisation and the purchase by NAMA of toxic developer loans. I have challenged the Government in the past to debate the issues in the House when Deputy Richard Bruton raised the matter of an entirely different system of dealing with toxic issues in the banks which would not expose the taxpayer to a...

Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: Have sitting arrangements yet been made for July, given that we have to deal with legislation in respect of NAMA, the Lisbon referendum Bill and the consequences of the Ryan Commission report? Will the House sit during July in order to deal with those important matters?

Order of Business (27 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: ...Dáil will not meet next week. That, in itself, will generate a degree of comment. The Minister for Finance has said that it may be necessary to recall the Dáil during the summer to debate the NAMA legislation. I understand that the Minister of State with responsibility for children will publish his plan for implementing the recommendations outlined in Mr. Justice Ryan's report before...

Leaders' Questions (12 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: ...of toxic assets and €18 billion in capital was lost as a consequence. If we make a similar calculation for Ireland, we could be talking about a loss of €33 billion if we continue with the NAMA project the Government appears intent on carrying out. In the context of the public interest, I ask the Taoiseach, as head of Government, to stop and think about the interest of the Irish...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)

Enda Kenny: ...40 billion in loans. That has become €90 billion. The Tánaiste was unable to answer Deputy English yesterday when he asked how this actually appeared. The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, is the wrong way to deal with this. The Fine Gael view was that the Government should evolve from the existing banks, the clean banks, with performing assets that were not toxic, in which the...