Results 21-40 of 84 for nama speaker:Micheál Martin

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: ...of 2017 and zero have been delivered. Some 1,500 houses were to be built under the rapid build scheme by the end of 2018. The delivery to date has been 208. The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, was due to deliver 6,946 units and only 2,400 were delivered. There was an affordable homes target of 400 by the end of 2018 and zero have been delivered. There has been an affordable...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)

Micheál Martin: Last week we had a very curious situation when the Taoiseach announced that NAMA would be taking a role in providing housing but subsequently said nothing had been decided. It was the latest in a lengthening list of policy announcements, both anonymous and claimed, by the Government which are not actually announcements. Will he explain the status of his statement about NAMA? Has the issue...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: ...jettison too easily in the House. It also affects future commissions. For example, we could have a commission of investigation into Project Eagle. Does that mean that the directors or the CEO of NAMA have to stand aside while that is under way? Of course it does not. When the Bill was enacted in 2004, nobody ever envisaged that the mere establishment of a commission of investigation...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: A consistent thread in the Taoiseach's replies to various people on this question during the last Dáil and this one is that there has been no wrongdoing on NAMA's behalf.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: ...its rightness or wrongness. Surely, when people heard that there was up to €7 million in an offshore account, it raised eyebrows. Surely, the deal should have been called off when PIMCO alerted NAMA to elements of what was going on and when the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, was himself alerted to what was going on at that stage. There is no point in saying that everything...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: That is what has come back to us in regard to this. It is the sense that has come from Ministers, the Taoiseach and NAMA in a very defensive mode. Instead of saying that if something is rotten in the state of Denmark in regard to this deal, it is in our interests to tackle and deal with it.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: ...the question of whether he ever asked the Minister of Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, the question as to why the shutters were not pulled down on this deal when PIMCO gave its information to NAMA in regard to third parties.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: All of this could have been avoided if the Government had not decided to sell such large blocks of assets under NAMA and to force the pace in terms of accelerating the disposal of assets at steeper discounts than were necessary.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: ...- I raised this issue during the last Dáil - that as revelations emerge and as the level of the investigations get deeper, the Government's position on Project Eagle, the sale of Project Eagle by NAMA, becomes more untenable by the day, that is, the sense that there is nothing to investigate down here or that there is no necessity for the Government of the Irish Republic to be overly...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Rent allowances for vulnerable families are cut allowing them to fall into poverty. The Taoiseach will not direct NAMA to build 10,000 houses.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach could direct NAMA to build 10,000 houses.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: In the budget, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, declared that NAMA would build 20,000 houses.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I am asking the Taoiseach to direct NAMA that 10,000 be social houses.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Some 10,000 of those houses should be sold to NAMA to be developed in the next five years.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: ...my arguments on rent allowance, which many of the agencies are saying has driven many vulnerable families into homelessness. The Taoiseach was also asked a specific question concerning NAMA's plans to build 20,000 houses. He was asked if he would instruct NAMA to ensure that 10,000 of those would be social houses. For some time, Deputy Barry Cowen has argued the case for building...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: ...this crisis and its impact on families. It has been going on for three years. Threshold and Focus Ireland warned the Taoiseach about this. We have been legally advised that the Taoiseach can instruct NAMA that half the 20,000 houses it is building should be social ones. That would have a huge impact in taking people out of the misery we all saw on RTE on Monday night.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach now change tack on NAMA and instruct it that a minimum of 10,000 houses out of the 20,000 houses it is to build should be social housing of one form or another because it has a social remit?

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: ...houses lying idle is still 3,000. There is no urgency to get them filled by families who should not be in hotels but in those houses. At budget time, the Minister for Finance announced that NAMA was going to build 20,000 houses, only 2,000 of which were to be local authority houses. He should have insisted that 10,000 houses from NAMA would be social houses and instructed NAMA to do so....

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: ...The plan for social housing will be approximately 1,000 houses short before the end of the year. There are 3,000 vacant local authority units across the country, which are still not ready for housing, and NAMA has no mandate to deliver social housing. Will the Government change its position and agree to increase rent supplement? Will NAMA be directed to build social housing as opposed...

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: ...allowed the problem become a crisis through inaction and by failing to intervene early enough. He did not have a proper, clear solution. My second question was if the Taoiseach would direct NAMA to build social houses. He states that NAMA will build 20,000 houses in the private market. There is a social dividend provided for in the legislation establishing NAMA.