Results 1-20 of 103 for nama speaker:Ruth Coppinger

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...any other consideration, despite a housing emergency. Profit is the only law that matters This is ideological on the Minister of State's part. We have the public land. Mel Reynolds told us that NAMA and the councils have enough land to build 114,000 public houses. We certainly have the resources and the money. I can give countless examples to support that. The richest 18 people in...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...; these are the people Fine Gael is stigmatising. Public house building on a major scale rescued tens of thousands of families from the slums and lanes. This generation also needs to be rescued. NAMA should have been turned into an instrument that would end the housing crisis, but, of course, it was not. The Player Wills site on the South Circular Road in Dublin could accommodate about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Cost Rental Housing Model: Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...public housing is not being promoted. We recently received a report from Mr. Mel Reynolds which showed that we could build 114,000 dwellings on public land owned by either local authorities or NAMA and that the biggest hoarders of land in the State were local authorities. That is scandalous. Why are we not pinpointing it? In my area Fingal County Council could build 18,000 houses. It...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...house building to build homes for the many tens of thousands of people who long to have a secure and affordable home. This can be done. New data published this week show that local authorities and NAMA between them own enough zoned residential land to build 114,000 homes. They own three quarters of all residential zoned land in Dublin city, where the greatest crisis is, which is enough...

Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Accommodation Provision (6 Mar 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...affordable and social homes. There has been a huge increase in the amount of wealth at the top of society. There are also the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, and the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, funds.

Topical Issue Debate: NAMA Portfolio (20 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: This is a really important issue in the Dublin West and Dublin 15 community. NAMA seems to be allowing whoever owns the land under its jurisdiction to ask the local GAA club to move off that land. To give the Minister of State a brief background on this particular area, it is one of the most diverse areas in the entire country. It was also one of the worst planned areas in the entire...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (15 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will raise with the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, the development for commercial use of the land used by a club (details supplied) for its playing pitches; his views on whether NAMA is delivering on its social responsibilities to the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7932/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (14 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request NAMA to ensure a building (details supplied) will be kept as a historical heritage building for the local community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7700/18]

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...and public homes. Yesterday it was revealed on RTÉ by a planner, Mel Reynolds, that local authorities have 12,000 hectares of land that could provide at least 38,000 homes. That is not to mention NAMA or other State agencies, just the councils themselves. The lands are already zoned and serviced, yet Dublin City Council last year built 56 public homes and my own council, Fingal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...issue in comparison with other places. This is not a difficult issue. Will the Minister look at the landbanks in the areas to which I refer that are owned by local authorities or that are under NAMA's control and focus on those? One interesting development-----

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)

Ruth Coppinger: ...unspent by councils and we know that refugees were brought here and placed in direct provision in horrific circumstances. Solidarity says the resources exist in the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, in NAMA, which also has funds - the debt that was paid while this Dáil was not sitting could have built 50,000 public homes - and in the AIB proceeds. There is land available, either...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...built all over the place, although mainly as higher end housing in Castleknock and elsewhere that probably would not be affordable. Surely we are getting Part V contributions from them. A great deal of NAMA building has occurred in Fingal, including Dublin 15. At the launch of its annual report, NAMA stated it had sold off enough land for 50,000 homes in the past six years. Has the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio Value (13 Jul 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated value of the remaining overseas properties on NAMA's books. [34539/17]

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...and acquire at least 60,000 vacant units for public housing. The Government can finance that by raising taxation on big business and the wealthy but also by using three funds we have, namely, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, NAMA, and the fund the Government got from the windfall from the sale of shares in AIB, which it is using to pay down debt so as not to upset its EU friends but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (4 Jul 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: .... The rate the league is talking about is 2.5% and I have seen 3% or 4% on previous occasions. That is still higher than using those funds or the funds in the Irish Strategic Investment Fund. NAMA, of course, has cash reserves of €3 billion. The key issue I have is not so much with credit unions but with all of these concepts. It is the desperate search to find a special...

Building Standards, Regulations and Homeowner Protection: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...demands on them. Where did we hear this before? We heard it from Boris Johnson and David Cameron in the years preceding the likes of Grenfell when red tape had to be removed to help business carry on its merry way. NAMA was involved with Beacon South Quarter and funded the completion of many of those apartments in Sandyford. Apparently the works were signed off by NAMA. Does the...

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...people. This was well documented by my colleague, Joe Higgins, in his minority report at the banking inquiry. The Minister says she is serious about white-collar crime. All these developers have now had their act cleaned up in NAMA. Either they are back on their feet or they are getting back on their feet. Some are even getting State hand-outs. I am not referring to the land that the...

Residential Tenancies (Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 May 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...Two funds that we have in this country have money. Both the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, and the Taoiseach have said that money is not the issue. There are two funds, the Irish Strategic Investment Fund and NAMA, that both have up to €7 billion in cash. We could use those funds to build social and affordable housing schemes. Deputy Gino Kenny is correct, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing in Ireland - Census 2016 Results: Central Statistics Office (10 May 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...not present, particularly on large estates. We have to conclude in also looking at Housing Agency figures that the reason there are these vacancies has much to do with hoarding by developers and NAMA which are waiting for house prices to rise again. Obviously, the CSO does not have this data and I would not expect it to have them. That is the only conclusion that can be drawn based on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...item to the points that the Minister has about documents that would be required. People should be able to go online and to check out an application to see, for example, if a developer is in NAMA. Has he or she fulfilled other developments? That was something we have all seen on councils when we were councillors - developers leaving an estate unfinished and launching another...