Results 1-18 of 18 for nama speaker:Thomas Pringle

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Thomas Pringle: .... In looking for solutions to the rental crisis, one would think that the Government would use every resource at its disposal. But, as Dr. Rory Hearne wrote in the Irish Examineryesterday: "Why is NAMA not being used as a source of affordable housing by the Government?" It is unbelievable to think that there is a wholly debt-free, State-owned agency with €1.2 billion in funding...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...be subject to immediate compulsory purchase order and made available to people on waiting lists and first-time buyers. I proposed that all unoccupied apartment buildings be commandeered to provide immediate housing as an emergency measure. I urged that NAMA release all residential units to local authorities immediately for the provision of social and affordable housing. I argued that...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...and, in some cases, taking their own lives. However, the bubble lives on. The property bubble is home to Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Green Party, developers, real estate investment trusts: REITs, vulture funds, NAMA and Government policymakers. I refuse to believe that any of them are living in the real world. If they were, they would see how damaging our private rented sector is....

Dublin Mid-West By-election: Issue of Writ (7 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: .... That was reinforced strongly in recent weeks when the overruns relating to the children's hospital project were discussed here again. That is not to mention Mick's work on policing reform and NAMA and his and Clare's contribution to the justice committee, which Deputy Connolly and I are delighted and honoured to try to continue. Clare Daly and Mick Wallace have spoken in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing Industry (13 Feb 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 70. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the recent acquisition of Portmarnock racecourse by NAMA and its imminent auction; if special consideration can be given to an organisation (details supplied) which has community based organisational status; if the social and sectoral benefits that would result from the sale of this infrastructure to the organisation...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...increases were in 2017. We could have had far better increases before now if the Government had been tackling white collar crime and the proceeds of that crime had been retained in the Exchequer. NAMAleaks has received many reports of employees of NAMA using NAMA information for personal gain in contravention of the NAMA Act. That is the type of white collar crime to which I am...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...25 billion through economic crime. This loss of €2.5 billion a year equates to more than 60 times the annual level of social welfare fraud. The Exchequer has lost tens of billions of euro through the activities of NAMA in extremely suspicious circumstances involving the current Government. The sale of NAMA's Northern loanbook led to a recorded loss of €162 million. NAMA...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...of the plan and strategy seeks to achieve, for these families the strategy will fail unless we act now to ensure that this hotel is leased to Dublin City Council. The onus is on us to do that. NAMA is a State agency. The receiver was appointed by NAMA. That the receiver can demand vacant possession and families will have no choice but to vacate is a disgrace. This cannot be allowed to...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...myself. Five families have been told they must leave Lynam's Hotel on O'Connell Street in Dublin by Saturday, as the hotel has gone into receivership and the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, has appointed receivers to the hotel. I acknowledge Dublin City Council is in negotiations to try to get more time for these families but this system is broken and all the city council can...

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (29 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: It is beyond time for a commission of investigation into the role of NAMA. In his earlier contribution, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, talked about how NAMA has done so well in recovering funds for the State. However, one would have to wonder if the Project Eagle sale had been handled properly how much extra NAMA's surplus for the State would be. We must consider that the...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: ...sound dodgy enough, the group is a sub-group of the finance work stream which forms part of the governance structures of the Social Housing Strategy 2020. The group is chaired by a senior official from NAMA and comprises officials of the Departments of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, the Housing Agency, Dublin City Council and...

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

Thomas Pringle: The Government line on this is that this happened across the Border, it was nothing to do with the sales process and that any of the problems lie with the buyers. PIMCO approached NAMA, said it had been asked to provide payments to third parties and had been advised by Brown Rudnick and Tughans. NAMA said it talked it out of the process but PIMCO said it left it voluntarily. Along...

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: ...end up getting away with causing this crash. When we look around us we see very many of the same people moving into positions of power again on the boards of banks and developers being funded by NAMA to get back into business again in order to benefit from this recovery. The Government amendment refers to meter charging being the fairest form of charging. The Government claps itself on...

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Thomas Pringle: ...under the housing policy it brings the number up to approximately 4,300. That is a huge issue with which to deal. In Donegal, under a leasing programme, 78 houses have been approved and under the NAMA scheme 59 houses have been deemed acceptable for social housing, but yet none of those houses has been completed and none of the transfers has been completed. There is a huge crisis in...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Jun 2012)

Thomas Pringle: ...of council houses, by leasing arrangements with private landlords or by discussions with the National Assets Management Agency; if he will provide details of any agreements already in place with NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31260/12]

Departmental Properties (14 Dec 2011)

Thomas Pringle: ... in view of the decision 2012 to allow the National Assets Management Agency to change upward only rent reviews if he will now to act to assist tenants in fishery harbour centres and implement NAMA type initiative. [40345/11]

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Thomas Pringle: ...20,000 plus extra people on social welfare, at least. The rebuttal of duty in opting out of rent reviews has been cowardly. This is a huge issue but the Government opted out and put it into NAMA, which is the new bogeyman in Ireland. In conversation, did the Ministers, Deputies Noonan and Shatter, consider how to get rid of the local butcher, baker and candlestick maker who cannot afford...

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (3 May 2011)

Thomas Pringle: ...their fiduciary duties to their customers, especially to mortgagees of principal private residences - the families of Ireland - to whom they had a special duty of care; — the Bank Guarantee and NAMA have crippled the normal workings of our financial and property markets and have not as yet contributed any positive outcomes; — arising from the unique circumstances that now occur,...