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Seanad: Housing: Statements (28 Sep 2017)

Grace O'Sullivan: ...the widespread practice of land banking, also know as land hoarding. I refer to the empty shop-fronts and houses that pepper the streets of our towns right across Ireland.  Mr. Brendan McDonagh, the head of NAMA, released a statement saying that enough land to solve the housing crisis was sold by NAMA, land that would have supported 50,000 houses. However, only 3,000 houses, or 6%,...

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)

Grace O'Sullivan: ...widespread practice of land banking or hoarding. The head of the National Asset Management Agency, Mr. Brendan McDonagh, stated there is enough land available to solve the housing crisis because NAMA has sold land that would support 50,000 houses. Only 3,000 houses or 6% of the potential number have been built. Mr. McDonagh blamed land hoarding for this. Land hoarding and leaving land...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jul 2017)

Grace O'Sullivan: ...Eoghan Murphy, last week said that any further extensions of planning permission must be for developments that are beyond the point of no return. On 13 July, Mr. Brendan McDonagh, the chief executive of NAMA, told the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach that, since its inception, NAMA has sold vacant land on which 50,000 houses could have been built....