Results 101-120 of 207 for nama speaker:Catherine Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 40. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to provide more performance spaces and exhibition spaces using properties held by NAMA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11719/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ...the Minister for Finance if he will reaffirm his commitment given to the Committee of Public Accounts on 6 October 2016 (details supplied) to establish a statutory commission of investigation into NAMA's sale of Project Eagle, in view of the fact that the committee's report into the sale of Project Eagle is due to be published within the next few weeks; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (21 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 610. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of NAMA controlled sites that CIE has an interest in and their locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8341/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Assets Sale (7 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason joint receivers and NAMA agreed to dispose of a CIÉ site to a person (details supplied) that was connected to NAMA under the section 172(3) of the NAMA Act 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5928/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coras Iompair Éireann (7 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 655. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason CIÉ agreed in 2013 to extend the term of the 1998 MDA agreement with the NAMA appointed receiver in view of the fact that the term was about to expire and the land reverted back to CIÉ unencumbered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5905/17]

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

Catherine Murphy: It is curious that we are having this debate today. The only conclusion I can draw is that we are being softened up for a roll-back, which would be totally unacceptable. The way in which NAMA was set up, and the secrecy surrounding it, always opened it up to the prospect of an inquiry. I listened to Deputy Burton who said she did not support the establishment of NAMA. However, the last...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It is very complicated, but the more complicated something is, the more we need to understand it. It goes to the core of many of the assets transferred from Bank of Ireland to NAMA and whether it has the legal standing to dispose of them. It is also at the heart of Project Eagle-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Catherine Murphy: -----and the NAMA project, or at least part of it, specifically as it concerns Bank of Ireland. It would be useful for us to have a full understanding of what is at the heart of the matter. I have tried to get my head around a lot of the documentation that was sent to us but the point being made is substantial in nature. It is not just about oversight, it revolves around the legal standing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered if the practical application of sections of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009, which require NAMA to contribute to the social and economic development of the State and protect or otherwise enhance the value of those assets in the interests of the State, are being carried out appropriately by NAMA in view of a documentary...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered requesting a temporary halt to all NAMA sales while a full evaluation as to whether the social and economic interests of the State are being prioritised as part of NAMA's sales processes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1731/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Policy on the Retention of Contemporaneous Notes in the Preparation of Board Minutes: National Asset Management Agency (14 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses cited best practice, but it is not unfair to say that "best practice" did not prove to be best practice. Mr. Daly stated that, were he to change something, NAMA would have kept a better record of the rationale for decisions.

Public Accounts Committee: Policy on the Retention of Contemporaneous Notes in the Preparation of Board Minutes: National Asset Management Agency (14 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Maybe the difference between NAMA and the top 100 companies was that NAMA had a different role and there was a public aspect to it, in that it was disposing of loans, assets or whatever. Did the same person take the minutes throughout 2013 and 2014?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses have said NAMA engaged Lazard to find bidders. Mr. Patrick Long was before the committee the other day. Prompted by some of the questions asked, I want to clarify a few things. At the time the portfolio was being sold, there were four firms that had acted on nearly 90% of the assets that had a par value of over £1 billion. None of these firms was on the first list of...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Does it not seem odd that NAMA had bypassed in the first round the biggest firms that had a profile of dealing with loans or assets in that range?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Does that not suggest that NAMA was pretty much happy with the bid on the table, that NAMA was just testing it against others - the much wider sweep of people invited in at an early point - that it was a rushed process anyway and that it was a single process? Does that not suggest that this was a flawed approach?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: So, NAMA did not-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: So NAMA did not get local valuers to value the Northern Ireland aspect of the portfolio?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: ...offered to those in the second round. The process appears to have been influenced by the fact that the bid was on the table. That then has the prospect of being an influencer in the minimum that NAMA would have set.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the Chairman. The witness sees how tight the time is, so I would appreciate if his answers could be quite short as well as to the point. I think NAMA was described as the biggest property entity in the world at one point, so big firms would have been aware of it and NAMA would have been aware of the very big firms that are likely to buy the big portfolios. That would be true....

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. When PIMCO withdrew, did Mr. Long advise NAMA that the breakneck speed might not be a good idea and that it might be better to go back to the drawing board, given that it had lost the certainty?