Results 21-40 of 74 for nama speaker:Mattie McGrath

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...We did not build a house in County Tipperary last year. We are codding the people and everyone else as well. We are spending money on reports, commissions and this, that and the other and leaving it all to NAMA. Deputy Wallace quoted figures on what NAMA is charging for the houses. It is a State-owned, rotting, stinking cesspit which did not provide either and when it did provide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...on sites. Unfortunately, the organisation is part of the problem now that is bureaucracy. One cannot build the blooming houses. I want to ask the same question that Deputy O'Dowd asked about the NAMA offer. My own local authority refused NAMA. The NAMA complement of property was not taken up for a plethora of reasons and the vacant properties as well. The ideals of the organisation...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...the place. The Government is also forgetting about those in mortgage arrears. It is abandoning them and throwing them to the wolves and vulture funds. Will the Taoiseach, please, rein in the banks, NAMA and the vulture funds? He should show the compassion about which he has been tweeting for many years and deal with the ordinary people who are struggling. AIB is being fattened. I wish...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...as public servants, many of them good ones, and they must deal with and serve the public. They cannot be creating quango after quango and retirement homes for themselves. My view on the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, the night it was set up was that it was like a wild animal released in the woods and we would never know where it would end up. We now know where it is. It is...

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: .... There was a clamp down on the media and it could not be reported. We had three decades of tribunals. I went up to the Taoiseach's office recently about the so-called investigation into NAMA because I object to the chair the judge appointed. It is another cover up. We asked the question, which someone else also asked of the officials, what have all these tribunals cost us. I was...

Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...this issue and thank the Minister for Finance and Taoiseach for the briefings provided to Deputies on the establishment of a commission of investigation into the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. I attended two such briefings with officials. I am surprised by the appointment of the named eminent justice to chair the commission of investigation. A question that arose at the...

Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...a vested interest in this case. I referred to other cases. I referred to previous incarnations and cases of construction companies and CRH, which supplied lots of concrete to people who went into NAMA. I did not refer to this case but to history.

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...some mistake. The banks gave us any figures they could to get us to bail them out. I will not say they told us lies but they told us untruths. They literally rode us backwards. I was there on the night NAMA was set up. It was like a wild animal being released in the woods and only God knew where it would end up. And now look where we are. One would think I was a prophet. Is there...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Please do. I cannot see them. I have asked the Minister to call in the county manager to explain what is going on. The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, offered the Department houses. The council gave me the range of reasons it had to reject properties offered by NAMA, through the Government housing agency and its mediator. When I put the question to NAMA it insisted that it was...

Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (1 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...and Jill Foundation are ignored and locked out of committee hearings. This is disgraceful. What consultations have been held with ambulance drivers and paramedics? This issue has all the signs of becoming the new NAMA in a few years' time but this time children will have died or become disabled and families will have been ruined. A RED C poll in June 2016 showed that 73% of the public...

Establishment of a Commission of Inquiry into the National Asset Management Agency: Statements (1 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...behalf. This is new politics but it will have to change if we do not get fair play and equality of esteem. Commitments were given around the need to establish a commission of investigation into NAMA's involvement in Project Eagle and this is not acceptable. Deputy Wallace has raised this on countless occasions over the past two or three years. He is elected by the people to do so and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...scheme was a disaster. I think three were approved in my county in the last scheme. That is not happening either. How come every scheme that is introduced just does not happen? Then there is NAMA, which recently told us it offered 1,600 units to councils. I went about checking this out and I am confused at this stage. We had letters back from NAMA, from my local authority - which was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (17 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will address concerns that local authorities are having to reject substantial numbers of properties offered to them by NAMA due to legal title or management issues or that the properties offered are below local authority compliance standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1552/17]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Except for NAMA.

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...helped, yet I read today about repossessions. They just pass this from Billy to Jack. They have no interest in ordinary people because all they have an interest in is getting the houses. I will not even go near NAMA, but it is a huge property developer and the scandals going on there, including the knock-off sales to their friends, will be exposed and there will be inquiries into that....

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...and safety issues everywhere and the council is just rubbing its hands. When asked why the regulations were not enforced, it says that it could not and cannot do so now because the builders are broke, in liquidation or in NAMA or it cannot speak with them because it is dealing with the receivers. This is disgraceful. People invested and bought houses off of plans for pristine, finished...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...because there are many instances in which people could be kept in their houses. Another issue is the purchase of houses by vulture funds, which is a total nonsense. I will not even get started on NAMA because it will be dealt with elsewhere, but that agency has a lot of questions to answer.

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...back, discuss our business here and try to get our house in order and let it pay for the appeal. Why should the taxpayers make more fat-cat lawyers fatter and richer, as they have done in supporting NAMA and all the skulduggery that is going on in that agency to which Deputies here already have referred? We have a lot of washing to wash out here and I note we have good dry days at...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...and have the capacity to build small schemes of houses and one-off homes for people who want to house themselves if they can get a mortgage. There are a lot of blockages in the system. I agree that NAMA is a vehicle. I said it in this House - from this very seat - on the night NAMA was set up that it was like a wild animal being released in the woods and nobody knew where it would...

Order of Business (28 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...Facility Agreement) Bill 2016 - Second Stage (resumed); and a motion to instruct committee on the Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016. Private Members' business shall be a motion on NAMA by the Independents 4 Change. Thursday’s Government business shall be the Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016 - Second Stage, to resume if not...