Results 1-20 of 21 for nama speaker:Mick Barry

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Feb 2021)

Mick Barry: ..., this may open the door to the largest privatisation in the history of the State. The only example I can think of that might rival it, and time will tell, is the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, where there was a €43 billion sell-off. The Tánaiste said some time ago that the launch of the Land Development Agency was comparable to the launch of Aer Lingus and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: ...turn that on its head and reverse it. Look at the amount of public lands in the State, even the land already zoned residential. The housing analyst Mr. Mel Reynolds has indicated that between the public authorities and NAMA there is enough to build 114,000 public houses. That would put one hell of a dent in the housing crisis if we said that public housing went on public lands, by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: ...ireann, the Port of Cork, Bord na Móna and the Department of Defence. One of the biggest concentrations of State-owned land outside of local authority control in the State is in the Cork area. A lot of it is NAMA-owned, though not exclusively. The Land Development Agency is being set up so that those public lands will be privatised, with at least 60% going to developers for resale...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: ...market rates and unaffordable so-called affordable rates. I conclude by asking the Government to stop the privatisation madness. There is enough public land in the hands of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, and the local authorities alone have zoned enough residential to build 114,000 homes. How can the Government disagree in the face of all of this evidence that building...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Availability (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: It is clear from the reply that there are vast tranches of public land already zoned for residential development. I understand that between the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, and the local authorities, there is sufficient such land to build 114,000 new homes. Why is the Government proposing a privatisation model regarding large tranches of that land? If there is 60% private...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: ...past Governments which included Fianna Fáil, the Labour Party and the Green Party. We need a different policy. We need public homes to be built on public land. There is enough public land in the control of NAMA and the local authorities which is already zoned residential to build 114,000 homes. We need housing for people, not for profit. The Minister's failure could hardly...

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: ...for residential development to provide more than 114,000 dwellings. Some 48,724 of these could be developed on lands owned by the local authorities, 65,399 could be developed on lands owned by NAMA and yet, in the middle of the biggest housing crisis in the history of the State, the Government has built less than 1% of this total per annum in recent years. Solidarity has proven the...

Address by Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (21 Jun 2018)

Mick Barry: ...rents, let alone being able to afford the purchase of their own home. The Irish State has billions of euro in the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and in the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. We need to spend this money on social housing. This is where President Juncker comes in. We are told again and again that the money cannot be spent because it would breach the EU fiscal...

Seanad: Address by Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (21 Jun 2018)

Mick Barry: ...rents, let alone being able to afford the purchase of their own home. The Irish State has billions of euro in the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and in the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. We need to spend this money on social housing. This is where President Juncker comes in. We are told again and again that the money cannot be spent because it would breach the EU fiscal...

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

Mick Barry: ...We are now witnessing the rise of corporate landlordism in Ireland. This is not an uncle or an aunt who has inherited a house, but rather big business entering the market and seeking big profits. NAMA has facilitated it, as can be seen in the case of I-RES REIT. Kennedy Wilson, a huge US corporate landlord, recently purchased the Elysian Towers in Cork. The rise of corporate...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: ...protest campaign to force change on this issue. Last Christmas, we witnessed the occupation of Apollo House in Dublin city centre. Housing activists and homeless people joined forces to occupy a NAMA-owned property. The message was simple: this is the people's property, it should be used to benefit people's lives as should all NAMA properties nationwide. A court case was taken against...

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: .... I am referring to the likes of the old Ford site, some of the former ESB lands, the site owned by Iarnród Éireann, Howard Holdings land and so on. Some of these sites are in the direct control of NAMA. The State should charge NAMA with building social and affordable housing and put the necessary finance at its disposal. That being said, there is a scarcity of 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)

Mick Barry: ...of the Government and ask it what it is going to do about it. They should provoke a political crisis in the country, if necessary. At the Fine Gael think-in, the Taoiseach, Deputy Leo Varadkar, said the possibility of repurposing NAMA to develop lands on behalf of the State to step in where the private sector has failed must now be considered for affordable housing. The left has called...

Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I support the amendments to the Government motion seeking to focus the commission of investigation but also seeking to suspend NAMA sales pending the completion of the investigation. We are in the habit of having investigations and commissions that tread over the same ground. It remains to be seen if this investigation will get us any further. That said, it is walking on the foundation of...

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

Mick Barry: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will direct NAMA to engage with the Irish Glass Bottle Housing Action Group that have been seeking a meeting regarding the potential for building significant quantities of social and affordable housing on that site, which they own; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39744/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Investigations (29 Sep 2016)

Mick Barry: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the ongoing investigations of the sale of NAMA's Northern Ireland portfolio, he favours halting any more sales of NAMA portfolios; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27621/16]

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: ...for the 850 properties and the murky circumstances around the £6 million success fee require an investigation? It does, absolutely. However, there is a bigger picture in the sense of how NAMA has operated. By the time it concludes its business, a total of 772 developers will have received write-downs amounting to a staggering €40 billion. We do not know how much of a...

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (16 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: ...is less than €23,000 per year and yet the salary pay cap for bank executives is €500,000 per annum. Gerry Gannon, one of Anglo Irish Bank's Maple Ten, receives a salary of €170,000 per year from NAMA. A failed developer is paid eight times more than a young nurse and a bank executive can be paid more than 20 times the salary of a young nurse. This is a sure sign of...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Mick Barry: ...scheme and the like. Is the Government, in reality, suggesting the abolition of council housing during a housing emergency? Speaking of the housing emergency, the document indicates that there will be NAMA funds to provide affordable housing directly. That is good, but when will it happen? After 2018. Does the Government not realise there is a housing emergency in the State at...

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: The issue is how to tackle the housing crisis in a serious way. I will start with a couple of citations, the first of which is from the chief executive officer of NAMA, Mr. Brendan McDonagh, when he addressed an Oireachtas committee in December. According to The Irish Times, he stated that a developer could expect to earn a profit of €20,000 on a newly built home that sold for...