Results 1-20 of 78 for nama speaker:Barry Cowen

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)

Barry Cowen: ...to overlap. It is normal practice for such questions to be grouped. The Minister of State might respond to that in her reply. What discussions or negotiations has the Minister of State had with NAMA and the local authorities to seek to reap the social dividend that was to be received by the State in respect of the number of units within NAMA that were to be released to local...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Barry Cowen: NAMA has entered into many long-term leasing arrangements with local authorities and housing associations. How does that sit with its lifespan? How does that sit with the dividend that is to be returned to the State? When is it expected there will be an interim dividend? When is NAMA's lifespan due to end and what dividend can the State expect? While I respect and acknowledge that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: Housing provision is currently in crisis. That has called for better delivery by NAMA in respect of the social dividend that was promised when it was set up. It now appears that there was nothing new in last week's announcement in respect of providing additional units and that there will be fewer units available to the State in the form of a social dividend by virtue of the change made to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Management and Operation of Housing Associations: Discussion (1 Oct 2013)

Barry Cowen: ...When will the private sector play an active role in the funding of housing associations to meet needs? I wish to ask all three witnesses about the direction being given by the Department. Once NAMA was put in place, we were promised a social dividend that would meet prevailing housing needs. What leadership has been given and from what source? As far as we can see, there has been no...

Topical Issues Debate: Job Protection (11 Mar 2014)

Barry Cowen: ...the level of consultation with the workers in this case has been minimal? Subsequently, and on foot of what has been said to Deputy Mulherin, does he believe and will he acknowledge to us that NAMA has a social obligation and responsibility to seek to pursue the retention of as many jobs as possible? Does he think NAMA is doing that in the proper fashion in this instance? He...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Barry Cowen: ...that local authorities are refusing units and the reasons for this. Picking up on the points made by Deputy O'Dowd, I sought further information recently from Dublin City Council about offers that NAMA had made to them. I think NAMA had offered the council in the region of 828 units. NAMA subsequently sold 190 of them. Within that, however, the main reason was the tenure mix. That was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: What discussions were held with NAMA to increase the supply of social housing units? What percentage of the 20,000 units committed to in the budget will the agency deliver? Can the Minister of State clarify whether this number is separate from last week's announcement of 20,000 units for Dublin? With regard to the interest rate clients of NAMA are charged, competitors are reputedly being...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: I thank the Minister of State for his response but I refer him again to the questions I asked. What discussions were held with NAMA recently regarding the budget announcement to increase social housing supply and when were they held? Notwithstanding the grave mistake to reduce the Part V contribution from 20% to 10% of private developments, the Minister of State said that of the 20,000...

Other Questions: NAMA Portfolio Issues (23 Oct 2013)

Barry Cowen: Can I confirm that the list the Minister will give me will give a detailed breakdown of what NAMA and the local authorities deem to be suitable for local authorities to take on board? Also, will the list show what, in the local authorities' eyes, are unsuitable, and the reasons they believe them to be unsuitable considering, as has been reiterated many times in this House by the Minister of...

Topical Issues Debate: Job Protection (11 Mar 2014)

Barry Cowen: ...in examinership after a management buy-out was deemed not to be successful because there were other parties seeking to enter the fray. The examiner has an obligation to act in the interests of NAMA, as has been explained. However, NAMA, too, has an obligation to act in the interest of taxpayers. We in this House have our own obligations to the people who give us the privilege to be...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Jul 2015)

Barry Cowen: ...land belonging to the person or company that took out the loan in the first instance and the same person or company's inability to meet the demands of the loan. It would lead one to believe that NAMA would be not only taking in trust but taking in charge, which might constitute it as the owner. I would like the Minister of State to elaborate on that in order to set my mind at ease before...

Other Questions: Pyrite Resolution Board Membership (5 Dec 2013)

Barry Cowen: I ask the Minister to convey to the Minister of State with responsibility in this area that I advise caution on any commitments that will emanate from NAMA considering that 18 months ago Deputy Hogan told the House he expected up to 2,000 units would be made available from NAMA between then and now to address this issue of homeless, and those have not materialised. The Government should not...

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

Barry Cowen: ...due to lack of action the number of people on the social housing list has been allowed to rise to 130,000; agrees that there is a national housing crisis; notes that the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, have been given responsibility to build 20,000 houses on behalf of the State; condemns the Government for only allocating 10 per cent of this stock for social housing as this...

Social Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2015)

Barry Cowen: ...authorities year-on-year. If he wants to really do something about this, the Minister should come back in here in a month and say: "problem solved, money given, job done". I heard the Minister discussing NAMA. The dividend from NAMA has been nothing short of useless. I will tell the Minister about the dividend from NAMA. His line Minister for Finance and his Government, in which...

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (20 Oct 2015)

Barry Cowen: ...of 2,338 units, as envisaged over the next four to five years, will only address 30% of the housing list. We were informed when the Government took office that the State would receive a dividend from NAMA, yet we have not seen any such dividend. In the recent budget, the Government informed us that NAMA would build 20,000 new houses. We were informed four or five years ago that the...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Jul 2015)

Barry Cowen: ...land purchased by local authorities around the country was purchased at exorbitant prices but there has been an inability to both make repayments and develop those lands. Would it be possible for NAMA to give this social dividend in so far as it could make available funding to local authorities to address that issue of land that was purchased and that is now sitting in land aggregation...

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)

Barry Cowen: NAMA. Do not go there.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: Can the private sector apply to NAMA for funding?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: 663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total number of NAMA units offered to the local authority in tabular form on a county by county basis; and the number accepted and transferred per annum from 2011 to date. [26395/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (13 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of total available development land in which NAMA has a financial interest in each of the ten strategic development zones. [39439/16]