Results 1-20 of 69 for nama speaker:Dessie Ellis

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Regeneration Projects (16 Jun 2022)

Dessie Ellis: ...was never completed due to a lack of investment. In 2013, Ballymun Regeneration Limited, BRL, was wound down. Many community facilities planned for the area were never built and the shopping centre fell into NAMA occupation. The majority of its retailers were gone by 2014. It suffered a major blow when it lost Tesco, its most important tenant. The shopping centre’s derelict and...

Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)

Dessie Ellis: .... If this is the case that arises, it will be nothing short of scandalous at a time when people are struggling to get on the property ladder or even rent a home. The previous housing Minister was offered a site by NAMA at a 50% reduction. If he had followed through and bought the site, it could have been given over to a local authority which could have enhanced the number of social and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Regeneration Projects (18 Sep 2019)

Dessie Ellis: ...xe8;che, restaurants and public houses as well as more than 70 shops, offices and apartments. Construction was to begin in 2010. However, as a result of the economic crash, the town centre lands became part of NAMA's portfolio of loans before any development began. Many retailers in the centre closed in 2014 and the shopping centre suffered a major blow when it lost Tesco, its most...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Book Sales (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Harry Potter-style economics. The Government is selling off these loans with NAMA and with the banks-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Book Sales (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: ...ordinary people. Some of the loans are performing and people could end up homeless or out on the streets as a result of this deal. We have no guarantee that will not happen. We saw this with NAMA when all the properties were sold off. It was another tragedy. It could have helped solve the housing crisis but rental properties and private houses were sold off in large numbers. PTSB is...

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: ...is how we get that money and our approach that form the question. We should also be outlawing the hoarding of land. This practice has set prices at a very high level and we need to stop it. More use should be made of the funds NAMA has raised. We have all met credit unions that have money available. I do not know why we have not figured out a way they could supply the funding that we...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Dessie Ellis: ...needed vacant possession. This woman is at her wits' end and on the point of breakdown because she cannot find another property and faces the real prospect of going homeless. The scandal of NAMA selling off properties and landbanks is a crime against the people. It will go down in history as contributing to the humanitarian disaster that has led to the housing and homelessness crisis...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Report: Dr. Mary Murphy and Dr. Rory Hearne, NUI Maynooth (20 Sep 2017)

Dessie Ellis: ...authorities through a semi-State company that is set up, we have to go down that road as otherwise, this problem will plague us for the next number of years. One of the greatest tragedies has been the remit NAMA was given to sell land and all the properties. It is scandalous. It is selling off land that speculators are buying and hoarding. That is outrageous. NAMA's remit should be...

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Dessie Ellis: ...lose their homes. This is unacceptable. The much-discussed mortgage-to-rent scheme has delivered very little. This is another issue that needs to be looked at more carefully as this scheme needs to deliver more than it has. NAMA's remit should have been changed a long time ago to prevent the selling-off of large portfolios of properties. This has, no doubt, contributed to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Dessie Ellis: .... I know that a State-run company goes against many people's ideology but I ask the new Minister to seriously consider the idea. I will give another example of where we have allowed things to get out of hand. NAMA and the banks are selling off large portfolios and individual places left, right and centre. Such a situation should never have been allowed happen. We could have brought...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)

Dessie Ellis: ...social housing unit had to built for every nine units, whereas previously it was one in five. The Government cut back on social housing in every way under Part V. There is more scope to be looking at NAMA in terms of how it is delivering. There are an awful lot of properties under the control of NAMA and it is getting funding from many of them through leasing arrangements or otherwise....

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Dessie Ellis: The Home Sweet Home campaign seized the Apollo House building last night. It is a NAMA building. It is like so many other NAMA buildings and properties that were sold off. That is one of the greatest scandals that has happened in this country. Thousands of properties were sold off to vulture funds and to different areas. It is an absolute scandal. That people would go out and seize a...

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Dessie Ellis: ...done. What is happening in Tyrrelstown and Blackrock must jolt the State to act to protect tenants. If their protection cannot be guaranteed, the State should intervene to take the homes into public ownership. NAMA should be compelled to stop further sell-offs of portfolios. We warned of the consequences at the time. We were right then and we are right now. We need to enshrine the...

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: ..., Community and Local Government, only 28 council houses were built in the first nine months of 2015;agrees that there is a national housing crisis; notes that the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, has been given responsibility to build 20,000 houses on behalf of the State; condemns the Government for:- gutting Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 which allows developers...

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: The plan is simply for the National Asset Management Agency to be supported in building housing to profit bailed-out developers. Given the way in which NAMA has operated, these properties could easily be snapped up by a major real estate investment trust, REIT, at a cheap price in order that the public can be screwed even more. In the past five years, we were told again and again that NAMA...

Topical Issue Debate: Property Tax Rate (26 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: ...at the estate, but the Minister is sticking by the mantra that the LPT is virtually set in stone. Previously, however, there were exemptions. At one stage, for example, houses that were in NAMA or had not been properly taken in charge were exempted. There is a precedent. It would be a small gesture if we were to make exemptions in cases like this one. Simply being told that a letter...

Planning and Development (Urgent Social Housing Supply) Policy Directive 2015: Motion (26 Nov 2015)

Dessie Ellis: ...are in real trouble. Some 12,000 of these cases will be fought in the courts, and five thousand properties will be surrendered. What are we to do? Can we not get our hands on these properties? Can we not get our hands on the NAMA properties that are being sold off for reckless prices? We are not against temporary housing but believe there are solutions available that should be considered.

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

Dessie Ellis: ...tackle the housing crisis and I am sure that is all we will get tonight. Government Members will try to spin the nonsense of their so-called strategy for housing. They will try to tell us of their investment in housing, of promised NAMA housing, of rent freezes and extra emergency beds. The figures do not lie and behind the Government spin it is clear the minimum has been done by...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (3 Nov 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 282. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the delivery of 20,000 units for commercial sale by NAMA; and if any of these units will be made available for social housing or designated for affordable rent. [37633/15]

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Dessie Ellis: ...to score points but to really plead with the Government. Whatever about yesterday, we cannot let people go without shelter this winter for lack of action. A major announcement yesterday, albeit a leaked one, was that NAMA, the organisation which has struggled for four years to provide just 1,300 out of a promised 4,000 houses for use under social leasing, had looked under the cushions...