Results 1-20 of 51 for nama speaker:Bernard Durkan

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Does NAMA not have a different obligation? Does it not have a responsibility to the State that a normal open market seller does not have? For example, NAMA does not have to accept the highest bidder. If the purchaser wanted to go on holidays on the basis of his profits over the next 20 years, NAMA does not have to accept that given that there is a requirement, over which NAMA has some...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: The only problem is that we may have some questions to ask directly of NAMA ourselves, as elected public representatives. We may be able to come to a judgment as to what is realistic, achievable and attainable, what NAMA's responsibility might be and how it might be extended to accommodate the kind of housing situation we are faced with. I am not certain that we should have a general debate...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Is there an obligation on NAMA to inquire as to the likely future use of a property following on disposal? In other words, would it not be wise and in the interests of NAMA and the taxpayer for NAMA to inquire as to what is likely to happen to a property, be that houses already built or potential development land, including, for example, whether a buyer intends to hold onto the property...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: The overhanging question is one that I am still at sea about. Where NAMA has acquired a property that achieved a hugely inflated cost or value - I am not certain which, but I would think it was cost - by virtue of repeated speculation beforehand, is NAMA expected to make a profit? In other words, if that property comes onto the market, it has the impact of inflating property prices...

National Asset Management Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Oct 2015)

Bernard Durkan: I was one of those who was not all that enthused about NAMA when it was first set up, but the situation that prevailed at the time was an emergency. The chips were falling on a daily basis, values were depreciating at a rapid rate and instability became endemic. It was determined by the then Government, rightly or wrongly, that this was the answer. Suggestions have been made on whether...

Topical Issue Debate: NAMA Portfolio (2 Dec 2015)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive reply. Time is critical and now is the time for NAMA to look at the assets it controls in Naas and to consider to what extent it can facilitate a reactivation of the development that is holding up development of the town centre because it has much wider implications and affects the entire town and outlying regions. While we are on the job,...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Any such funding will be used up by the time NAMA is finished.

Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Legislation appertaining to the issue raised by Deputy Terence Flanagan a moment ago was promised in the House by the Minister for Finance in the context of the NAMA legislation.

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)

Bernard Durkan: In response to amendments proposed by the Opposition during the Committee Stage debate on the NAMA Bill, the Taoiseach and the Minister promised, in good faith, that legislation would be introduced at a later date to address this issue.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: NAMA purchases the properties and leases them through the local authority.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Construction (3 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 53. To ask the Minister for Finance if a land locked site (details supplied) will be examined by NAMA with a view to enabling the necessary details and procedures to be progressed in order to facilitate housing development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40241/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if a land-locked site (details supplied) will be examined by NAMA with a view to enabling the necessary details and procedures to be progressed in order to facilitate housing development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46882/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (25 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of properties currently held by NAMA; the value of all such property disposed of to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10887/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (25 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to the utilisation of NAMA as a means of solving the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10888/21]

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (5 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: ...the Minister for Finance the degree to which the National Assets Management Agency owned properties are expected to realise by way of sale or other methodology a price above or below that paid by NAMA originally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32945/12]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if NAMA might be again approached with a view to the possible availability of extra housing to meet the pressing needs of local authority housing applicants throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2319/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if NAMA may again be approached with a view to the possible availability of extra housing to meet the pressing needs of local authority housing applicants throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25151/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (13 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 1271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if NAMA may again be approached with a view to the possible availability of extra housing to meet the pressing needs of local authority housing applicants throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33671/17]

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Bernard Durkan: On a separate issue, legislation was promised in the House during the passage of the NAMA legislation to the effect that measures will be introduced to assist people whose mortgages had fallen into arrears through no fault of their where unemployment had overtaken their position and where, subsequent to that, a group-----

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (29 Apr 2010)

Bernard Durkan: ...so far acquired under the National Asset Management Agency; the current, expected or realisable values of the property; the degree to which expected State liability has altered since the passage of NAMA legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17557/10]