Results 1-20 of 36 for nama speaker:Brendan Howlin

Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...do we not establish a new housing agency to deliver affordable housing and use the 700 publicly-owned sites we have and the monetary resources the Government has allocated - more could be available through NAMA - to work with the local authorities and voluntary housing agencies to build and deliver these houses?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Dialogue (16 Jan 2018)

Brendan Howlin: NAMA is already building social housing now.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Dialogue (16 Jan 2018)

Brendan Howlin: .... We need to think outside the box if we are to solve the affordable housing problem. Based on my experience in government and on foot of my dealings with the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, at close quarters, I made a proposal almost two years ago that the latter be transformed into a housing delivery agency. It has the skill set and landbank, as well as access to capital and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...capacity or do we need more as per the broad spectrum of opinion now and, if so, will Government be providing additional acute beds within existing hospitals or in new hospitals? In regard to NAMA, having a bespoke organisation like NAMA that is already off-balance sheet provides a great advantage. I would not re-open a discussion with the European Commission on keeping it off-balance...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...for a bespoke agency to drive a housing plan. I suggested a year ago - it was a strongly held view of mine in the latter period of my time in government - that it would be a suitable role for a reconfigured NAMA because it had access to capital and land banks and had negotiated with developers as a matter of course during the years. Will the Taoiseach outline his views on whether it...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...civil partnership legislation, which, in turn, preceded the marriage equality referendum. I still knew her after Fianna Fáil had crashed the economy when she had drafted the legal textbook on the NAMA legislation. Her knowledge of the complexities of property law and conveyancing are clearly apparent from that seminal text. Of course, I came to know her immensely well indeed during...

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Brendan Howlin: ...through the leasing of private rented accommodation. Over 13,000 new social housing units and social rented dwellings were delivered last year. This represents an 86% increase on unit delivery over the previous year. NAMA delivered 2,000 social housing units on top of that. In this year’s budget, I increased the allocation for social housing by a further €125 million to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legal Costs (7 Jul 2015)

Brendan Howlin: The total of legal fees incurred by the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information (OCEI) to date in the case of NAMA v Commissioner for Environmental Information is €97,000.  It is expected that additional fees will be incurred in the coming weeks. The total of all legal fees incurred by the OCEI since its inception to date, including those for the NAMA case, is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: NAMA Operations (12 May 2015)

Brendan Howlin: The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) is a public body as defined in Section 6 of the FOI Act 2014, other than in relation to the records of the body detailed in Schedule 1 Part 1 para (x) of the Act. In general, the FOI Act came into operation 6 months following its enactment in the case of a public body such as NAMA, that was not subject to FOI under the 1997 Act but is...

Seanad: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...transparency in regard to the bodies' activities, consistent with their status as North–South bodies, it is not possible to include them. Amendment No. 12 seeks to include receivers and administrators, whether appointed by NAMA or other secured lenders, under the definition of "public bodies" in section 6. The receiver or administrator, as the Senator is aware, is an independent...

Seanad: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Sep 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...will result in a number of long-standing high profile exclusions from FOI being brought under the scope of the legislation, including An Garda Síochána; public financial bodies such as the NTMA, NAMA, the NPRF, the NDFA and the Central Bank of Ireland; and the refugee agencies. As a result of this new structure, public bodies excluded either in whole or in part from FOI need to...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...be allowed to operate on an equal footing with commercial companies which are not subject to freedom of information. I had long discussions with my friend and colleague, the Minister for Finance, on NAMA, the National Asset Management Agency. I accepted the case he made that the disclosure of full information relating to the remuneration of NTMA company staff would place the body at a...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...held by these bodies. There is an administrative arrangement analogous to FOI for these bodies. Regarding amendment No. 23, concerning whether receivers and administrators appointed by NAMA or another secured lender fall outside the definition of a public body as set out in section 6 of the Bill, the receiver or administrator is an independent legal officer appointed to take control of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (26 Feb 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...guidelines contained in Public Financial Procedures and the Guidelines for State Bodies.  Practice may also be affected by specific legal provisions in particular areas, such as the legislation that governs NAMA which, of course, is mainly engaged in disposing of loans, and that governing local authorities.  Bearing in mind the guiding principle to maximise the benefit to the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...no doubt there will be an amending Bill some time in the future. Please God, I will bring one in. However, it is an extraordinary advance on where we were and where we are now. In regard to the NAMA agent, the independence of a receiver or an administrator from a lender is dictated by statute - by section 149(1) of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009, section 108(2) of the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...of subsets in the grouping. In respect of the amendment tabled by Deputy Sean Fleming, No. 12, which is grouped with amendments Nos 81 and 83, receivers and administrators, whether appointed by NAMA or by another secured lender, fall outside the definition of a public body as set out in section 6 of the Freedom of Information Bill. The receiver or administrator is an independent legal...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...from the long-term unemployed. Investment in our recovery is, of course, not confined to central government. Commercial semi-State investment in the next three years is set to reach €5 billion. Through NAMA, as the Minister for Finance has mentioned, we will invest a further €2 billion in Irish commercial property in the next two years. We are transforming the National...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Legislation (9 Oct 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...release. The main exemptions that I have provided to the bodies mentioned in the question relate to the following: (i) records concerning investors or potential investors in which the NTMA, NAMA, and the NPRF have invested or could potentially make an investment are exempt; (ii) the NTMA will hold an exemption to protect records relating to the functions of the State Claims Agency (as...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Targets (23 May 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...its time in office, the Government has successfully renegotiated significant elements of the Troika Programme Conditions- for example the Jobs Initiative, the ending of further asset transfers to NAMA, reversal of the Minimum Wage cut, a more progressive use of the proceeds from the sale of state assets, the provision that fiscal measures specified in the programme could be substituted by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (10 Jan 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I also meant to mention NAMA. I will come back to the Deputy later.