Results 1-20 of 45 for nama speaker:Leo Varadkar

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (7 Feb 2024)

Leo Varadkar: ...established by Government are also paid from the Department of the Taoiseach Voted expenditure. These include the Commission of Investigation into the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, the NAMA Commission of Investigation, and the Moriarty Tribunal of Inquiry.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (7 Nov 2023)

Leo Varadkar: The only ongoing commission of investigation for which I am the specified Minister is the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, commission of investigation. As with all such commissions, it is fully independent in its investigations. The commission was established in June 2017, following consultations with Oireachtas parties, to investigate the sale by NAMA of its Northern Ireland...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (30 May 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...of investigation for which I am the specified Minister is the National Asset Management Agency Commission of Investigation. As with all such commissions, it is fully independent in its work. The NAMA commission was established in June 2017, following consultations with Oireachtas parties, to investigate the sale by NAMA of its Northern Ireland portfolio, known as Project Eagle. Its...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Jun 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...a long note on this and, out of respect to other Deputies, I will give the Deputy the note rather than reading it out. The information I have is that Carrickmines is not owned or controlled by NAMA but there are units under the control of a NAMA-appointed receiver, John McStay of McStay Luby. The receiver has advised NAMA of his understanding of the current position regarding block...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 May 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...is not that affordable housing will only be built on public land. It will also require the acquisition of land in some cases and it may be built on private land as well. I will go back to the NAMA portfolio, which was not mentioned by the Deputy. It is the crucial point that he left out. Why would somebody leave the crucial point out of one's argument? The crucial point about the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ... 2016 €402,358 €889,791 €1,292,149 2017 €110,345 €388,630 €498,975 The Fennelly Commission completed its work in 2017. Cregan Commission of Investigation (IBRC) Year Administration Legal Costs Total 2015 €344,655 €132,289 €476,944 2016 €722,949 €315,959 €1,038,908 2017 €782,059...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (28 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...as much as €30 million and it is difficult to say when the commission will end. I sought an interim report but have not received it as yet. The spend to date on the Cooke commission, which is investigating NAMA and the allegations about Project Eagle, is €2 million and it is estimated that it will top out at approximately €10 million. Again these are just...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: It is not the case that they are public property. NAMA owns the loans not the properties and it is disingenuous to make out that a property which is held as collateral against a loan owned by NAMA is public property, something I have seen a few times. That is not the case. In the past week or two, some of the Deputy's fellow travellers in his party had to admit that a property was not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...we are able to borrow so cheaply on the markets at the moment is the fact that our budget is balanced and because the markets understand our commitment to use any sales of shares or any windfall from NAMA to reduce debt. If we were to depart from that policy we would find it could cost us a lot very quickly. The markets have already priced that into their calculations.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation Expenditure (25 Sep 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...I am the specified Minister under the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 are the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, commission of investigation and the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, commission of investigation. Following consultations with the Opposition parties by the then Minister for Finance, the IBRC commission of investigation was established in June 2015. Mr....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Legislative Programme (13 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: We will not use NAMA because that would require EU Commission clearance and that would set the process back a year or two. 2 o’clock That is why we will set up an agency de novo, which will take control of public landbanks to make them available for development and buy up private land if appropriate and do the same with that. That is perhaps something we should have done decades...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: If one is asked a question about a hospital or a school, there is a good chance one will check with the hospital or the school for the answer to the question. With regard to the NAMA surplus, I recall the debates about establishing NAMA very well. Many Members said that NAMA would end up with a large deficit. It was suggested there would be a deficit of up to €10 billion. I...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I may be wrong on that point but most people argued at the time that NAMA would not break even and that there would be a deficit.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I have to be honest that I was one of the people at the time who thought there would be a NAMA deficit.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: However, there will not be a NAMA deficit.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: -----NAMA has done its job.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ..., interview people and then come to its conclusions at the end of doing that. The interim report of the Cooke commission, which I read only a week or two ago, does not make any findings against NAMA. It is largely a progress report on the work he is doing. He has requested an extension and that extension is being agreed. While there are certainly concerns in the report relating to...

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...Deputies put allegations on the record of the House in good faith, perhaps believing them, and we subsequently found out they were untrue. That is why we all need to be cautious in this area. NAMA is very much on my radar. It is coming to the end of its remit as a public body which was set up as a solution to the banking crisis. We now believe it will make a small profit and remit...

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I am not in a position to respond to allegations the Deputy has made against individual members of staff in NAMA. This is not the place for us to make allegations, nor can I respond to them not knowing whether they are true or untrue. The DPP acts independently of the Government and does not receive direction from it. The DPP's office does not account to the Government for its decisions....

Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)

Leo Varadkar: It does not. That reference in A Programme for a Partnership Government in terms of infrastructure is NAMA funding infrastructure to access sites so that they can be developed. For example, the link road between the N2 and the N3 in the Tyrrelstown and Hollystown areas, with which the Deputy will be familiar, was part funded by NAMA thus allowing that land to be opened up for development....