Results 21-40 of 302 for nama speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Defective Building Materials (18 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 262. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct NAMA to urgently pay for the remediation costs of the building defects leading to fire safety and water ingress issues at a location (details supplied); if he will ask NAMA for an explanation as to the reason that it has not done this to date when receivers controlled by NAMA in the neighbouring estate reportedly carried out similar...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ...issues, water ingress and so on. There is one particular case that I would like the Taoiseach to look into, namely, that relating to Carrickmines Green. The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, is control of that estate and is refusing to remedy building defects, even though it has done so elsewhere. I am told by residents that NAMA has sold units to people who do not know that there...
- Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ...The State put in the Luas. The site is off the N11 and millions of euro have been spent on infrastructure. For a brief period, the development was in public hands, in the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, but we flogged it off to developers and speculators. Finally, more than a decade later, housing is starting to appear there. There are apartments and so on. An outfit that was...
- Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ...are 8,000 housing units which, if they were affordable, would probably go a long a way to solving the housing crisis. Although I agree with the points they have made, I must say to our Labour colleagues that part of the responsibility lies at their door. I recall that when the decisions were being made to sell off what was NAMA land to private developers, I, Deputy Paul Murphy and others...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (5 Apr 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and commissions of investigation we have had, how long they went on for and how much they cost, they are quite telling about the history of this country. A commission of investigation into NAMA related to the housing crisis and what developers did to this country; a commission of investigation into the IBRC, a dodgy bank that lent money to developers who helped to wreck the economy;...
- Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Finance and these investor funds, where they no doubt became acquainted with the tax breaks that were available if they invested in the Irish property sector. They moved in at scale and bought up NAMA's portfolio, which was the biggest property portfolio in the world at the time and was in public hands. NAMA had cash sales of approximately €40 billion but the actual value of that...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ...get, we get at a vast cost, far in excess of anything we would have paid if we had provided this directly on lands, taking Cherrywood as an example, which we actually had in our possession. These were NAMA lands. We gave them to the funds. They built completely overpriced stuff. They lease a little bit back to us at astronomical cost. We still do not know how much affordable housing...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ...sector and whether there is an oversupply. It gets my goat when I see the Seamark Building while travelling on the Merrion Road. I do not know whether the Minister has ever passed it. One of the NAMA developers, Bernard McNamara, built the big blocks beside St. Vincent's University Hospital. They are huge impressive looking buildings. There are about seven or eight of them. At least...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ...solve the crisis; their intention was to benefit from the crisis. In the process, they have made it worse. What is the alternative? There was an alternative then and that was to have used the NAMA portfolio for what it should have been used for, and some of us were absolutely explicit in pleading-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ..." the Irish property sector, will turn out to be one of the greatest mistakes ever made in this State. It has contributed directly to the housing disaster we now face. It is bad enough that NAMA has got €40 billion in cash for the property it has sold and unloaded so far, mostly to these types of vehicles, from 2012 and 2013 onwards, when it should have used that property...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the rental accommodation scheme, RAS and leasing arrangements will have cost €1.8 billion. This will go to the private sector. In most cases, it will be to pay for properties that the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, sold, another decision made by that Government. This is, in itself, fairly extraordinary. One target in Rebuilding Ireland that the Minister met when he had...
- Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ...rents were not falling and the decrease in rents would not last for long, which it did not, and that a housing crisis was looming because of that decision. To compound that, a policy was embarked upon under which the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, which had all this property flogged it off to vulture funds, the same people who are now charging these extortionate rents. In...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: NAMA is. It is also sitting on empty properties.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is misleading people. He is correct that the mandate set by the Government for NAMA is to blame for this outrageous situation. Let us remember what is at stake here: thousands of families are homeless, almost 100,000 families are on housing waiting lists and 70% of working people are completely priced out of the housing market. The truth is the NAMA legislation first of all...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: At the weekend, Mr. Killian Woods in the Business Postrevealed that the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, was in possession of 54 units - let us call them what they are, namely, potential homes - in Prospect Hill, Finglas, 28 of which were vacant and 26 of which had been empty for a decade. That is an incredible fact for a publicly owned agency. This report confirmed and provided...
- Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ...landlords. If such action is justified in Berlin to deal with unaffordable rents and a lack of tenants' rights, it is doubly justified here because all of those vultures, cuckoos and corporate landlords got their property from us via NAMA. What had a nominal value of €40 billion is probably worth approximately €100 billion now. They also get tax breaks and day-to-day money...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (27 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 439. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount NAMA has made available to developers in loan facilities to complete projects by year up to the end of the second quarter of 2021. [41178/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (27 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 440. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount NAMA has paid out to date for repair and maintenance of properties in its portfolio. [41179/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (27 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 442. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of empty properties and land banks that have not yet been sold with regard to the assets of NAMA; and the negotiations that have taken place to acquire these homes for social and-or affordable housing. [41181/21]
- Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Party Government, the Fine Gael-Independents Government and the current Government in that they have actively encouraged vulture and cuckoo funds to come in and take over what was virtually the entire NAMA portfolio. Now they are coming in to buy up new estates and they are pricing the first-time buyer or ordinary working person who wants to buy out of the market. The policy is...