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Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: .... It suggests it would be advisable if the commencement of the Act were not sooner than the publication of the final report of the commission of investigation into the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. The Minister will be aware that, in 2017, the Government set up an investigation into NAMA, particularly Project Eagle and the associated portfolio. The reason this is relevant is...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...the crash in 2008, seem to have emerged very successfully from it, while in many cases the public has lost out in terms of opportunities. There is a concern and a hunger for transparency around NAMA. I was hoping my amendment might have the double benefit of encouraging the final publication of that report on NAMA, which is very overdue, as well as, crucially, giving us the learning from...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Jul 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...go down and more units could be crammed into the same space. Those are perverse incentives that have been created systemically. It was, of course, the market that led to the property crash. Then NAMA again placed the interests of investors centre stage. That is why there is a commission of investigation examining the relationship between it and investors, particularly regarding the...

Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...for the processing of personal data by any local authority where considered necessary and includes an extensive list of bodies, for example, museums, agencies, broadcasters, financial bodies like NAMA, tourism boards and housing agencies. It also makes further provision for the disclosure of personal data for the purpose of preserving the common travel area by air carriers and leaves to...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...to move to a situation where blame can be apportioned and concrete actions taken as a result of its work, we have to consider that time is passing. We are concerned that in the past ten weeks NAMA has sold another tranche of loans worth €2.5 billion. We know about Project Gem. We also know that large-scale sales of assets are happening under the same regime that surrounded...