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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...welcome. I raised a couple of issues with him. One is that his Department has responsibility for commissions of investigation. I think there are two under his control at present. One is the NAMA commission and the other is the IBRC commission. I am conscious that the IBRC commission has concluded. It delivered its report in July 2022. Where are we with the NAMA commission? The...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (1 Dec 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance when NAMA will start construction on the Irish Glass Bottle site, Ringsend, Dublin 4, in order to provide much needed social and affordable housing. [39949/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (15 Jan 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: 175. To ask the Minister for Finance if a site (details supplied) in Dublin 8 can be used for the construction by NAMA of a significant amount of social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54234/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (24 Oct 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...housing projects advanced by the Government. Unfortunately, it has become bogged down in bureaucracy. In May 2017, an agreement was reached between the Government, Dublin City Council and NAMA that the Government would provide funding for the purpose of purchasing 900 social and affordable houses. A strategic development zone, SDZ, was subsequently approved by Dublin City Council on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Mortgage Arrears Resolution (Family Home) Bill 2017: Discussion (25 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: To achieve one of the objectives set out, I presume the witnesses would need a decision by the Government and legislation introduced by the Oireachtas. Do they envisage NAMA-type legislation, whereby a statutory entity would be set up or perhaps use the insolvency service, and mortgage distressed loans in the financial institutions would be examined and transferred to this statutory body?

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Eacnamaíochta, Sóisialacha agus Cultúir), 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Mar 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...that such legislation would be less easy to challenge before the courts. There is no doubt that if such legislation was introduced and gave a Minister the right to, perhaps, transfer the land from NAMA, to seize land held by State entities or to insist that land zoned for residential use is built on within a short period of time, that legislation would be challenged. If, however, there...