Results 41-60 of 74 for nama speaker:Mattie McGrath

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...there are significant crises but in small towns and villages. I also welcome the penalties to be introduced in respect of those hoarding zoned lands. There are a lot of zoned lands, some of them are in NAMA while others are in no man's land. We need to deal with this situation. Planning permission needs to be dealt with too. I have met several young couples who have acquired sites,...

Other Questions: NAMA Portfolio (18 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...all know how compulsory purchase orders have been used in the case of developing roads and other infrastructure but he put forward an imaginative suggestion that they could be used in the case of NAMA and of vulture funds. He suggested that where houses, with tenants or otherwise, are being sold from under the feet of people, the State should be able to come in and purchase those houses...

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...There are 2,800 people in Tipperary who are approved for housing not to mention all of those whose houses are being repossessed and the terror behind that lucrative industry involving the banks and NAMA and their friends the sheriffs, county registrars and receivers. We saw what happened with a farm in Cork the other day. While it was nothing to do with the house, the house will probably...

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...to keep a business afloat in challenging times. This is the thanks they are getting from the banks which the country bailed out and for which the people are paying. We must rein in the banks and NAMA. Whatever new Government is there must deal with this, otherwise it will be banished as well. I agree wholeheartedly with the former Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd. Town centres are...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Mattie McGrath: ...of them is involved in a big company. Somebody else is going to come in and supply prefab houses and they will make profits. As my colleague said, it is not a good idea to create fat cats elsewhere. NAMA should never have been set up as it does not act in the interests of ordinary people, yet the Minister for Finance is depending on it to deliver 90,000 houses, some 90% of which will be...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: ...sector and was on the board of the Irish Council for Social Housing or ICSH. It has a huge capacity to build, develop and deliver houses quickly. There were no quick bucks, big developers, NAMAs or architects. The ICSH could deliver turn-key projects, while the Minister did diddly-squat, but the big friends of Fine Gael would not be supported then.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: ...social and affordable housing provision from 20% to 10% is a non-runner and is stupid. I know who sought that reduction. It was the big business people in the Construction Federation of Ireland and NAMA, which is another acronym but we know where their interests are. When NAMA was established I said it was like a wild animal in the woods and no one knew where it would end up. We now...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: ...an internal e-mail that I have in my possession from two senior managers in IBRC, although I will not name them as the Chair has asked me not to. The content of the e-mail is strange:You want to send me over your one non nama (if you did one for it) and I will lash them out later - have a quick read of [Mr. X] too - there will be fire works!!This was internal. The Minister said he could...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: ...to go away because he does not want to know about it? These are the people who are being persecuted and downtrodden. What about the lady in Cashel in Tipperary who is being intimidated and bullied by NAMA after her husband committed suicide? We will be here again in ten years' time or sooner. I might not be here but there will be people elected to this House who will enquire into...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Mattie McGrath: Are they all in NAMA?

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Mattie McGrath: They are all in NAMA.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Mattie McGrath: ...EirGrid has now called for a proper public consultation. When will the heads of the EirGrid Bill be introduced in the Dáil? In view of what I said earlier today about people being hounded by NAMA, when will the Central Bank consolidation Bill be introduced? I spoke about the destruction of a family in Tipperary where the husband, the breadwinner and main businessman, lost his...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Mattie McGrath: ...Did he have to wait until the unfortunate individual died last week on the street 50 yards from Leinster House to know there was a homeless problem? Will the Taoiseach call in the banks? Will he rein in NAMA, which is making people homeless? It is terrorising a widow in my county whose late husband ended his own life. Will the Taoiseach call off the hound dogs of NAMA and the...

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: ...dozens of times, as well as the fact that the heads of a Central Bank consolidation Bill have not been prepared to bring the outlandish behaviour of the banks and the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, under control. According to the Central Bank’s figures, in the second quarter of 2014, 90,343 mortgages on primary family dwellings - homes, not buy-to-lets - were seriously in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Receivers (25 Mar 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 271. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of receivers appointed by the National Assets Management Agency to family homes and commercial properties; and the money spent to date on receivers by NAMA (details supplied). [14150/14]

Leaders' Questions: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...is about the Central Bank (consolidation) (No. 2) Bill 2011. I have in my hand a coroner's report following an inquest into a businessman's untimely death. The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, is pursuing families and driving them to despair and even death in some cases. It is State terrorism. These are not my words but the words of the county coroner in Tipperary.

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...him. Many ordinary business people are in jail tonight, having been affected by receiverships, and now we are going to give carte blanche to a new type of receiver, a new animal. I said when NAMA was set up that it was like a wild animal in the woods, we did not know where it would end up and now we are feeding the wild animal to let him off. The Taoiseach is a disgrace to the...

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...are being bailed out. They are laughing all the way to the bank. They are being bailed out at the expense of the ordinary taxpayers here and the ordinary people are being forced out of business. God forbid one must deal with NAMA, the most dastardly unit that was ever set up. When it was set up I described it as a wild animal in the woods and stated that we had no idea where it would...

Freedom of Information (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jul 2012)

Mattie McGrath: ...not to give powers of investigation to an Oireachtas super-committee. None the less, the Oireachtas has a very valuable role to play. Somebody has to hold people to account. Consider the case of NAMA. When it was established, I described it as a wild animal in the woods and said no one knew where it would end up. However, I did not believe so many fat bullocks would come out of it...

Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (Resumed) (7 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: ...we saw this morning, not one of the 100 independent assessors for people in mortgage distress had been appointed. We are bailing out the banks and the big developers, many of whom are working for NAMA. The entire situation is a disgrace. The banks are not giving a shilling to anyone and nothing is being done about this. People are just rubbing their hands. What did the Taoiseach do?...