Results 1-17 of 17 for nama speaker:Victor Boyhan

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Asset Management Agency (8 Dec 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...of State, Deputy Fleming, for coming to the House from the Department of Finance to discuss what I think is a really important issue. I refer to the need for the Minister to make a statement on NAMA-controlled lands estimated at 426 ha with planning permission for housing and zoned residential use sufficient to build at least 20,000 new homes. I wish to put on the record of the House...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Asset Management Agency (8 Dec 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...for the 31 local authorities. There is potential for the Land Development Agency to look at some of this or to work and collaborate with people involved in this land. We must always remember what NAMA was set up for. I understand it is leveraging its assets versus available land. The Minister of State made a very valid point in summing up on Irish Water. We now see as a regular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ...of the issues that arises concerning the LDA when one sees media commentary and letters to various newspaper editors. I do not suggest it is correct, but some people make an analogy between it and NAMA or say they are similar. That is not the case, but the reality is that many see it that way. People will have a greater understanding as the pre-legislative scrutiny ends, the report is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Victor Boyhan: I acknowledge the work of the Oireachtas Library and Research Service on the briefing document. With Mr. Coleman's previous experience with NAMA, what was the experience there on the freedom of information, FOI, thing? There are some similarities between NAMA and the LDA. Clearly, FOI will be a big issue. Mr. Coleman got a taste of it this morning. We talked earlier about probity,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ...Coleman well in his role as chief executive of the Land Development Agency. The Minister circulated a briefing note on his appointment yesterday, which reminded me that Mr. Coleman was involved in NAMA, banking and accountancy - three areas that do not generally instill much public confidence or trust. One of the big challenges facing the organisation is that it must gain public trust...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ...of all parties involved, that percentage could be increased. What are the possibilities in that regard? I ask the delegates to outline their views on their councils' experiences in interfacing with NAMA in the release of properties that could be made available for affordable housing. Many figures are bandied about, but what are the practicalities? The audits have been undertaken; the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Regeneration Projects Funding (8 May 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ..., the private shopping centre. Everyone who knows the town will be aware that all of the commercial activity takes place around this commercial and privately-owned building that was once under NAMA but which has since been sold. There are issues in that regard. The people in Shannon and their elected representatives want a high street. There is no high street there. I know the town...

Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)

Victor Boyhan: ...Agency, but we have yet to see the legislation that will underpin it. Until such time as we see it, we do not know what funding will be necessary to get the organisation up and running. One has to question the difference with NAMA's role, functions, remit, landbanks and assets and how it will dovetail with the Land Development Agency. Is it just another fancy word for the same agency?We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Victor Boyhan: ...terms of the figures than we were when we started the Rebuilding Ireland programme. I do not want to get into the figures but we need solutions and to work together. A recent report from National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, on its 2017 accounts includes an attachment setting out a note on the social housing status to the end of March 2018, which I will make available. It states that...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (31 Jan 2018)

Victor Boyhan: ...idle land. That should be audited. We need to establish if local authorities do not have the competence, the will or the money to bring housing on stream and address that. We must re-examine NAMA and ask if it has a potential role to deliver existing housing stock for social, affordable and rental housing to the State. I want the Minister of State to find that out and update the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Victor Boyhan: ...play. Everyone has a role. How will we address accountability in the context of a failure to deliver? What sanctions will be imposed? The second issue is the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. The Sunday newspapers reported that NAMA said it is on course to clear its original €32 billion debt this year and that the remaining surplus will be returned to the State. There...

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)

Victor Boyhan: ...that there is a need for transparency in anything he does. Would the Minister consider raising the proposed vacant site levy above the 3% level? This has been recommended by both the ESRI and NAMA and should be considered in the context of bringing the tax forward for 2018. He should at least consider it because it is important. Will he also engage with the Minister for Finance with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Report: Dr. Mary Murphy and Dr. Rory Hearne, NUI Maynooth (20 Sep 2017)

Victor Boyhan: ...like to see the establishment of a new semi-State Irish affordable homes company as proposed by the National Economic and Social Council and detailed in the Nevin report. We have recently heard about NAMA or the Government coming up with suggestions about that body's role in all of that. I would like to hear the witnesses' comments. I am not sure that NAMA is particularly the right...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (24 May 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State for being present and reading the statement into the record on the proposal. It is difficult to see what the NAMA commission will find out that we do not already know. There are outstanding criminal inquiries into the matters relating to the commission, there is a Comptroller and Auditor General report and now this commission is proposing to do this work. This...

Seanad: Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I ask the Minister of State to go back to the Department and examine the issue of NAMA lands and whether we can use them for housing. The Department must also approach the Conference of Religious in Ireland, CORI, and ask it to cough up lands that it offered to give the State in an indemnity scheme which was nothing short of a disgrace. CORI has not delivered but has the potential to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Victor Boyhan: ...into this. I am really interested in solutions and I know he is too. In his submission he also argues that Government policy is geared towards inflating the price of houses on which the viability of NAMA's residential portfolio depends. That is a very profound statement with which I do not necessarily disagree. Will Dr. Sirr tease that out and give some substance to that argument? ...

Seanad: Poverty and Homelessness: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Victor Boyhan: ...they would not support the provision of social housing, in line with party policy and what is being espoused by the Government in the Houses of the Oireachtas. With the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, billions of euro of property in Ireland has been sold at a knock-down price, and at a time when we have a national housing emergency, we have allowed such properties go to vulture...