Results 1-20 of 39 for nama speaker:Joan Collins

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the Taoiseach. What I know is that NAMA has €1.2 billion in funding reserves and 577 ha of residential development land, and that is a headline figure. That landholding and those cash reserves are capable of delivering up to 80,000 affordable and cost-rental homes. We know NAMA has been selling apartments for up to €500,000 and more. I put it to the Taoiseach and his...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: Yesterday, Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett raised with the Taoiseach some very serious questions in regard to the role of NAMA but his reply, as usual, did not deal with the issues raised. I will try to make the matter very simple. Will the Taoiseach's Government, through the Minister responsible, instruct NAMA to provide the following: a map and details of land it currently holds, the...

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

Joan Collins: ...jurisdiction is not taking a much more investigative approach to Project Eagle. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, said there is no need for an investigation as there is no alleged wrongdoing by NAMA, which is a very broad statement to make. We know there are serious questions about the role of Frank Cushnahan, who was appointed to the Northern Ireland advisory committee by the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (2 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 265. To ask the Minister for Finance the persons or bodies NAMA is selling its property to; the amount they are being sold for; and if NAMA receivers are evicting tenants. [52441/21]

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: ...of euros have been sold off to hedge funds, private equity giants and international banks. The biggest seller in this was the State through the medium of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. The liquidation of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, facilitated the sell off of €22 billion in loans in a matter of months. This all started, appropriately enough, in Davos...

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: ...there has been a 21% increase in the sector. One in five now rents in the private rental sector. The policy of enticing vulture funds and cuckoo funds into the sector with tax breaks and access to NAMA properties has also been a success for these people and institutions. In 2010, investors bought 10% of property; now it is 25%. High rents are a necessary factor in this policy, hence...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (2 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: ...family and his friends. The best thing we can do is to do something about the situation he faced on the streets night after night. When one contrasts what happened yesterday with the fact that NAMA, the largest state-owned property company in the world, is sitting on property, we can only ask why this happened. The Minister has called a summit on Thursday. Will he invite the CEO of...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (2 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: The Minister did not answer two of the questions I put. Will NAMA be part of that discussion on Thursday? It should be, because it is the biggest property owner almost in the world. In regard to Fr. Scully House, why are those 90 units not handed over immediately?

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2018)

Joan Collins: Some 55% in NAMA.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (2 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 266. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a map and details of land that NAMA holds including location, size, planning permission and commercial viability analysis; and if he will provide a list of its property portfolio including locations and vacant units. [52442/21]

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Joan Collins: ...to local authorities last year in their budgets for house building. Instead, it provided a second bailout to developers and landlords. It is also scandalous and insane that the State, through NAMA, has purchased some €35 billion worth of property, much of it residential. Last year, I placed a motion before Dublin City Council calling for NAMA to hand over residential properties to...

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

Joan Collins: ...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. [31265/12]

Topical Issues Debate: Job Protection (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: It seems that a profitable company, with the backing of its directors, went to NAMA to discuss a management buy-out. It appears that as a result of difficulties experienced after that time, it was not possible for the company to exercise that buy-out. There is something wrong with that process, to my mind. Why would a profitable company not be able to complete such a buy-out? I want...

Topical Issues Debate: Job Protection (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: ...sponsor than the cigarette and alcohol companies. We should support these types of local businesses as much as possible. I am not sure whether it is in the Minister's power to intervene with NAMA and with the examinership process. In any event, he has an opportunity this evening to explain to the workers what is happening.

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Joan Collins: ...anymore. We have had three years of a Labour Party-Fine Gael Government and watched this crisis develop. I remember in 2010 putting forward a motion at a Dublin City Council meeting calling for NAMA properties to be brought under local authority control because of the looming housing crisis. The crisis has not happened in the last month. It has been developing for the past six years,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Collins: ...pressure at the moment without having to take on rent allowance. Between 90,000 and 100,000 families in the State are on housing waiting lists but the Minister of State referred to 397 units from NAMA, 800 voluntary housing units, 185 new builds and a total of 285 units in Dublin city between 2013 and 2016. It is a disaster. The Minister of State, Deputy O'Sullivan, a member of the...

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: ...taking the action to liquidate IBRC, the Government has a responsibility to treat these workers fairly and squarely. At minimum, the workers should be included in the transfer of undertakings to NAMA or continue to work for the liquidator. Agreed severance terms should be fully honoured. One worker pointed out to me that while he was aware that IBRC's future was limited and that as the...

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018)

Joan Collins: ...land yet is not being allocated to public housing. The State is the single biggest land hoarder in Ireland, according to many property analysts. In addition, it appears that land sold by the State agency NAMA to various vulture funds could have accommodated 50,000 homes, yet fewer than 4,000 are completed or under construction on lands formerly owned by NAMA. A large proportion of the...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: ...been considering this proposal as I know because I have tabled several questions on it to the Minister. Instead, we now have talk of some half-baked scheme to use the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, in conjunction with private developers to somehow or other play a role in the provision of affordable housing. One of the definitions of stupidity is to keep doing the same thing and...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Joan Collins: ...sale of the century. I would describe it as the sell-out of the century, on a par with the rip-off of our oil and gas resources, the bank bailout and the bonanza for vulture funds represented by NAMA. Is it not time to end this madness, stop, take stock and commit to a programme of public housing, starting with the construction of 50,000 units on these State lands?