Results 1-20 of 47 for nama speaker:Patrick O'Donovan

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...loss of €280 million is something on which the taxpayer would expect us to drill down. I wish to focus on how the matter has been handled, in particular in the fall-out in the past week. Does NAMA accept that there could be a better way of dealing with the issue in terms of the public perception of how it is carrying out its work? The allegation that has been made is that NAMA is...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: NAMA has ongoing engagement with the city and county managers. How often does NAMA meet them to make them aware of the portfolio NAMA has?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Remuneration (18 Sep 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of employees working for the National Asset Management Agency; the highest wage paid to a NAMA employee; the average wage for a NAMA employee; the recruitment process employed for new employees; if new positions are advertised for positions with NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37923/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (17 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Office of Public Works (OPW) has engaged with NAMA, its debtors and receivers,  on a number of occasions since its establishment in relation to  properties that were secured to Nama.  It will be appreciated by the Deputy that due to the sensitive nature of the work carried out by NAMA all engagement was necessarily on a strictly confidential basis.  Due to the passage...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the witnesses. In his statement earlier and previously in July, Mr. McDonagh referred to NAMA's difficulties with the retention of staff. It was one of the issues he was concerned about for the future. He said that from the outset NAMA recruited staff with a diverse range of skills in the assessment of assets, including property development, asset management, architecture,...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: In relation to its portfolio, Mr. McDonagh has said NAMA is involved in planning applications. He has said – he can correct me if I am wrong – that approximately 70% of NAMA’s portfolio has been dealt with.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: In relation to what Mr. Reid said where the letter dated 24 June 2013 was subsequently replied to on 25 July 2013 where this jurisdiction's Minister for Finance referred it on to NAMA. Did NAMA receive any further correspondence from the Department of Finance and Personnel in Northern Ireland?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I know that. We also know a letter was received. The company was instrumental in introducing NAMA to two potential investors interested in the NAMA loan book.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (3 Mar 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Harcourt Square complex was part of a bundle of properties being sold by NAMA in 2013 under Project Aspen. The Commissioners of Public Works engaged with NAMA at that time to explore the possibility of the Commissioners acquiring Harcourt Square. However, this did not proceed as it was not possible for NAMA to separate Harcourt Square from Project Aspen and deal with it in isolation....

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: There is a reason I am asking this. The NAMA annual report cites a number of development sites in Dublin along by the docklands which the agency hopes to develop for badly needed units, offices, commercial units, houses, apartments and so on. Let us cut to the chase. Will we wind up with a situation involving people who have resurrected themselves and entered a process where they could...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...the then Northern Ireland Minister of Finance and Personnel, Mr. Wilson, he said “Subsequent to those discussions, I have received the enclosed letter from Brown Rudnick, who will be known to NAMA. They were instrumental in introducing me to two potential investors in the NAMA loan book.” Do we know who they were?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I made some points about social housing in Dublin. How proactive are the other four local authorities in Dublin and its hinterland regarding assessing NAMA's asset base to see what else it might have? Mr. McDonagh mentioned a hotel that was offered to them a few years ago, priced at €3 million, and which is probably now worth €4 million. Has NAMA offered them anything else to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...the issue with regard to the University of Limerick which was raised at the committee previously? I asked this question before, but it might have been dealt with. When the representatives from NAMA were here they gave us a figure for the number of social housing units that were rejected by local authorities in Dublin and other areas of Leinster. Has NAMA provided further details on...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: When Mr. McDonagh was before the committee in July I asked a question on the role of NAMA in housing. At the time, Mr. McDonagh said a local authority in Dublin had refused an offer of properties to try to alleviate in some way the housing crisis it was facing. As I remember it, South Dublin County Council had refused an offer. Does Mr. McDonagh have any further information on the take-up...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Last week, when NAMA was before the committee, its representatives went through the numbers of social housing units that had been allocated to local authorities, particularly in the Dublin region, but which had been refused. Would it be possible to get a report from the CEOs of the four Dublin local authorities on why, in the context of what is on the news every day, they refused the houses...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...of page 2 the partner who signed off on the letter said: “On a personal note and by way of further background, I personally had responsibility and initiated the very first loan portfolio sale that NAMA completed (in 2012 to Morgan Stanley)”. He wrote that letter to the then Northern Ireland Minister of Finance and Personnel, who on foot of it subsequently contacted the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: What stock level has NAMA behind this, or is that it?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes. NAMA mentioned the hotel somewhere in south County Dublin. This was in the public arena from last week. Is the hotel to be transferred to Dublin City Council?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: As a matter of interest, has NAMA offered other similar facilities to the authorities?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am really interested in emergency accommodation. Am I right is saying NAMA has previously offered hotels to the Dublin local authorities? Have they been refused?