Results 13,241-13,260 of 21,498 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I heard all that. I do not expect Mr. McDonagh to have the gift of seeing into the future; I accept that. However I do not accept Mr. McDonagh saying glibly that no one can predict exactly the right time to sell on an asset. Is that not what NAMA is charged with doing? NAMA is charged with making those judgments.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am instancing this transaction. We have discussed previously the fact that NAMA is not an organisation or body that is amenable to close scrutiny by parliamentarians like us because of commercial sensitivities and the commercial nature of NAMA's task. That is what we are told and that is the position set out by NAMA. I am citing this instance and raising a concern around it. Perhaps...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: How does the taxpayer get sight of that data?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Have there been high profile instances where NAMA has sold an individual property or portfolio of properties here or overseas at what transpired to be a greatly depressed level? Obviously, NAMA monitors these things. Has the agency ever entered into a transaction in good faith and with the best judgment available only to discover one year or 18 months later that the same portfolio or...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does NAMA keep an eye on properties that have passed through the hands of the agency, that have moved from NAMA debtors to others or for which NAMA has had a responsibility? Does NAMA monitor their subsequent movements?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does NAMA do that in a systematic way?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: One of the areas Mr. McDonagh cited as a concern in terms of continued NAMA performance is the retention of specialist staff. He has raised this issue before and we have debated it. What are the current staffing numbers in 2014?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: 370.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am correct in saying that represents an increase from 224 in 2012 to 331 in 2013.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: That does not suggest any flight of staff from the organisation.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Alright. There has also been an increase in the payroll bill from 2012 to 2013 and 2014. I am correct in saying that.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: What is the quantum of that increase?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: NAMA's numbers have increased and payroll costs have also increased. What is the average salary level of staff members? How does it average out? I looked at some of the figures earlier. I reckoned payroll, including salary and pension liability, averaged out at about €93,000 or €94,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: About €90,0000. There has not been a dramatic shift in that from 2012.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: That does not suggest any great change in the profile of NAMA's staffing.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The payroll costs have increased and the average has not shifted dramatically. I am not gainsaying-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. McDonagh. He made reference in his presentation and in previous meetings to the buoyancy in the property market, both residential and commercial. He has attributed some of his successes, as he sees them, to that fact. Given that, why have the impairment costs or assessments increased?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Féinriarachta Pearsanta agus Sláine Colainne) 2014: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the opportunity that Deputy Clare Daly's Bill has provided to Members to discuss the remaining constitutional barriers to the equal rights of women in this State. Given that equality before the law is generally protected at Article 40.1, that the equal right of women to citizenship is protected at Article 9.1.3°, and the equal right to vote and to stand for election is...
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: When will the Taoiseach make the decision on the other extension?