Results 1-6 of 6 for nama speaker:Verona Murphy

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...build a two-bedroom apartment, versus just €150,000 for a two-bedroom house. How does it make sense that we insist on this policy in the middle of a crisis when the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, is now saying it is unlikely to be able to build the 1,214 houses it has prepared for because of commercial viability. The issue of viability has developed because of all the...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: People's expectation to own their own home is now for many only a pipe dream. Why is that, if the economy was never stronger and employment levels are so high? NAMA is part of the answer. It was initially sold to the public as a system that would save the housing market by warehousing loans, but instead this changed midstream and those loans were sold to vulture funds, resulting in the...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Verona Murphy: I have a question on a matter that interests me. Why does NAMA have 8,025 residential units, built on sites outside its control, that are included in the agency’s residential development target?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Verona Murphy: Does NAMA have any control over the pricing structure for the residential units? What prices are they being delivered at?

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: ...and sometimes without any regard to the disastrous consequences of those primary policies. We have had experience of this in recent years, such as with the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, collapsing the housing and building industry, an increase in heavy goods vehicles, HGVs, on the roads due to a reduction in load-carrying capacity and high-density guidelines to justify...

Coronavirus: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Verona Murphy: ...the recession would not last forever, that the wage cuts were necessary,that the increased taxes were temporary and that the bank rescue and the troika were the only show in town. There was no way out. NAMA was to save the day. Socialism for banks and vulture and cuckoo funds but capitalism for everybody else has been the reality. These entities prosper in an environment of low or, in...