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Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: Mr. Daly could not possibly be a politician then.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: Could I move to a totally different area? I was quite shocked by some of the conversation between Deputy O'Donovan and the witnesses about the housing situation. As a Dublin Deputy, I deal with people with serious housing questions every week. How many housing units were offered to each of the four Dublin local authorities and how many of them were accepted? What comes out from that is...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: Over what period did that happen?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: From 2011 up to the present day. Continuing in the housing vein, to what extent does NAMA have land that could be used for housing construction either private or social, particularly in the Dublin area but more generally?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: That is in the whole country?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: What proportion of that would be in Dublin, Cork and Galway?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: Is there any chance that this is likely to become available?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: So in other words, of the land that NAMA sold in the past 18 months, only about one-twelfth of what could be built has been built on it?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: Which local authority is that?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: That situation is so painful. I am very appreciative of the information Mr. McDonagh but it frustrates me and I know that the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government is hugely frustrated with the slow delivery on some of these fronts. So, basically, NAMA is not an impediment to that progress and it really lies elsewhere?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: Going back to those 6,500 units, are there any more dwellings that are likely to come or is that-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: So that would be really under the 11,000 that could-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: Is there anything else Mr. McDonagh can say that might help the housing crisis before I leave that subject?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: I will ask what is perhaps an unfair question, but Mr. McDonagh can refuse to answer it. Are builders dragging their feet?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: I agree. On a different note, Project Jewel relates to the Dundrum town centre. Will Mr. McDonagh talk me through that and the level of profit that he expects? Where will it leave the loans associated with, for example, Mr. Joe O'Reilly? Will his company be able to operate again?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: NAMA has divested itself of the whole loan.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: I know.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: Okay. A politician whom I did not admire finished his career by saying: "I have done the State some service." Whatever about him, the witnesses have done the State some service, and I thank them.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Dietary Allowance Administration (1 Oct 2015)

Robert Dowds: 32. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to increase the funding for persons in receipt of a diet allowance because of specific medical conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33693/15]