Results 1-20 of 40 for nama speaker:Bríd Smith

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: .... One of the first things People Before Profit did when we were elected in 2016 was address this crisis, or attempt to do so, with a Bill. I am specifically referring to rents. We tried to get NAMA to prioritise the provision of public housing on public lands, to stop rent increases and reconnect rents with people's wages and inflation. We called our Bill the Housing Emergency...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...sat at the top of society overseeing and helping this entire housing crisis. From Mr. Austerity himself to various personnel from legal firms enmeshed in the developer-led building industry to ex-NAMA officials and so on. One high-ranking official is on record as saying that every house is affordable to the person who purchases it. Is that the type of thinking we need in an agency meant...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (22 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department had meetings or discussions with NAMA officials about a location (details supplied) in Dublin 8; if so, the details of the meetings; if his attention has been drawn to the NAMA-appointed receiver's appeal to have the location removed from the vacant site register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2525/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (22 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had discussions with NAMA officials in relation to a location (details supplied) in Dublin 8; if the use of this site for the provision of social, public and affordable homes by the local authority and approved housing bodies will be supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2526/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (22 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 111. To ask the Minister for Finance if NAMA has considered offering a location (details supplied) in Dublin 8 to the local authority or an approved housing body for the provision of public and affordable housing; and if NAMA will be instructed to prepare a report on the feasibility of such action. [2527/19]

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

Bríd Smith: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of a site (details supplied) in Dublin 8; if the site is controlled by NAMA; if its potential use by public agencies or Dublin City Council for social or affordable housing has been examined; and if his officials or other Departments have had meetings with the receivers of the site to discuss the future of same. [54428/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (18 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the removal of height restrictions has a major upward impact on site value of the lands sold and that the price obtained for the land disposed of by NAMA recently is thus considerably less than could have been obtained; and if he discussed the likely impacts with NAMA officials before it disposed of lands. [52841/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (18 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance if NAMA had been informed of the forthcoming changed height regulations but continued to completion with such sales; if so, the reason NAMA was permitted to dispose of such sites at considerable discount to its subsequent revaluation; and if he was advised of these sales and disposals prior to the announcement on height restrictions. [52842/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (18 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance if he discussed the likely impact on land prices and specifically NAMA-controlled sites of the measures on height restrictions with either the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government or officials in his Department or outside agencies or bodies; and the details of discussions and meetings that took place at which these height restrictions were...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: NAMA Property Sales (18 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the removal of height restrictions has a major upward impact on the site value of the lands and that the price obtained for land disposed of by NAMA recently is considerably less than what could have been obtained; and if his Department discussed the likely impacts with NAMA officials before they disposed of lands. [52805/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: NAMA Property Sales (18 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 655. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if NAMA had been informed of the forthcoming change to height regulations but continued to completion with such sales; if so, the reason NAMA was permitted to dispose of such sites at considerable discount to their subsequent revaluation; and if he was advised of these sales and-or disposals prior to the announcement on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach did not answer my question on the height restrictions and NAMA.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Can we take that minute to answer the question on the height restrictions and NAMA?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...have been lifted by order of the Minister. My question relates to planning and economics, because one cannot have one without the other. Did the Department of the Taoiseach have discussions with NAMA at any stage? Did it inform NAMA of the likely impact the lifting of height restrictions would have on any planning permission application that might be submitted by developers and, most...

International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...wealthy people who sink their money offshore or avail of tax loopholes so that they do not have to pay their fair share? Are they the people who lost the €20 billion that we cannot find from NAMA, as Deputy Wallace mentioned earlier? Are they the people in the financial centre on the docks who are insisting that we keep €13 billion of Apple money in an escrow account? The...

International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...I think the latter point is a crucial argument that was missing from the Minister of State's response. We need more workers in this country. Deputy Wallace referred to money that went missing from NAMA. There is no more knowledgeable source in this House on what could be done - and what needs to be done - regarding the housing crisis than Deputy Wallace. I was shocked to hear the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (9 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance if NAMA has interests, current or historical, in lands or debts connected to the current difficulties of a company (details supplied); and the detail of these interests and transactions, including dealings connected with the company or other companies. [40796/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...situation in this country where vulture funds are literally handed, for little or no money, profitable land and housing? They have gobbled up nearly everything that remained from the crisis through NAMA and they are being given more and more each day. Now, it appears their actions are halting the much-needed building of social and affordable homes. This is like another Carillion, except...

Northern Ireland: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...to social issues. It is not just right-wing on economic questions. Beneath the façade of supporting Protestant workers' interests, the real agenda of the DUP is to support the elite, which we saw in the NAMA and Project Eagle and cash-for-ash scandals. Internationally, we saw it with the selling of the North as a tax haven and a low corporate tax jurisdiction with few workers'...

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)

Bríd Smith: ...well out of this crisis, thank you very much. This is the fourth piece of legislation that our group has put before this House to try and deal with the crisis. We proposed changing the remit of NAMA to provide social and affordable housing and to stop selling off public land and public housing. That was rejected by this House and by the Government. We proposed an Anti-Evictions Bill...