Results 41-60 of 296 for nama speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Acquisition of Development Land (Assessment of Compensation) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...worth double what it was. We know vast profits have been made from it and that half of these strategic housing developments, SHDs, are probably on land unloaded by the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, under a Fine Gael-Labour Party Government into the hands of these people, who are sitting on it. This Bill will not even deal with that planning permission issue. The value of that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 333. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason uncompleted houses (details supplied) would not be sold individually by NAMA to persons who are willing to complete the necessary work to make these houses habitable for their own use given that there are other houses in the estate that are completed with occupants who have a water connection and in view of the lack of housing; and if he will...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., they threaten to undermine any attempt to deliver the public and affordable housing that some of us in opposition have been pointing out for a decade is needed to address this crisis. This is NAMA part 2, to put it simply. We warned about NAMA originally. NAMA should have been used to deliver public and affordable housing but instead it was used to flog off land-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I am pointing out that the LDA is part 2 of the disastrous policy pursued with NAMA. It is exactly the same policy and will have exactly the same disastrous consequences at a time when we should be moving in precisely the opposite direction. Shanganagh Castle is proof positive of that. If the Government had simply provided the local authority, which had signalled its desire to build...

Financial Resolution 2021 - Financial Resolution: Stamp Duties (19 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...them of the tax benefits that they could have by investing in Irish property, for example, paying no tax on their rental revenues or capital gains, and the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, sold off property worth more than €40 billion with the Government's active encouragement. The same funds that were invited in by the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government are now being given...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...áil, People Before Profit has submitted an alternative budget. Since year one, 2011, we have been warning about the Government's policies on housing, and particularly its decision to sell off all the NAMA properties. We had the opportunity to take control of this land bank and to deal with the housing crisis by delivering affordable housing on a massive scale. In 2011, we warned...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...or serious matters of public concern. In the context of the current housing crisis and the debates about that situation, we need to look at the experience of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, more generally and learn some lessons from it. In the case of George Nkencho, his family deserve an investigation into the circumstances of his shooting. The family of Terence Wheelock,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...be set up as designated activity companies. In other words, the privatisation of the entire public land bank. That is the agenda. The Taoiseach should not forgot that it was Fianna Fáil who set up NAMA, then Fine Gael and Labour flogged off €40 billion worth of assets to these vulture and cuckoo funds that have wrecked the housing market and priced ordinary people out of it....

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...disastrous decision by the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government to essentially stop the building of public housing directly by local authorities. Fianna Fáil started those mistakes when it set up NAMA and increasingly outsourced and cut back the provision of social housing. However, Fine Gael and the Labour Party turned a bad situation into a disaster in 2013-14 with the two decisions...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...from the Department of Finance had 65 meetings in 2013 and 2014 with vulture funds where they invited them in to commence the rampage. In a deliberate policy, the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, was told to sell off, which it subsequently did, more than €40 billion worth of land and property assets to these bloodsuckers. They have now moved on to buying up new estates...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What happened ten years ago is important because some of us stood up in this House at the time and begged the then Government not to sell off the NAMA portfolio but instead to use it for social and affordable housing. Had the then Government listened, we would not have the crisis we face now. I am appealing to the Government not to do the same with the Land Development Agency. The...

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...discover the affordable, cost-rental housing on it will be subject to a benchmark against local rent and prices, which are the highest anywhere in the country. It is flipping unbelievable. In Cherrywood, which is also in my constituency, former NAMA land, a Fianna Fáil construct, was handed over to private developers who are now building four blocks of build-to-rent apartments. I...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... They have not committed anti-social behaviour and have always paid their rent. They simply have the misfortune to live in an apartment complex, many of them for up to 20 years, which was unloaded by NAMA into the hands of one vulture fund and then another, as happened with many properties across this city and country. These vulture funds have persecuted the tenants for profit and for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 493. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of payments made by NAMA to law and accountancy firms from 2018 to date; the amount received by each of the firms for each respective year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15487/21]

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...can take any parcel of land from any public body and they can do what they like with it, in effect. It is unbelievable. This is worse than the National Asset Management Agency. At least we had the NAMA land briefly in our ownership before it was given back to the investors, vulture funds, real estate investment trusts and so on. They flipped the land, made a fortune and then leased it...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that problem significantly. There are many elements to the outrageous scandal, which will go down in the history books as the greatest mistake any Irish Government ever made, of selling off all of NAMA's properties to developers who are now building shockingly overpriced housing, including at excessive rents, speculating and hoarding land to drive up prices. Given the abysmal failure...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount NAMA has made available to developers in loan facilities to complete projects by year up to the end of quarter 2 of 2020. [25841/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount NAMA has paid out to date for repair and maintenance of properties in its portfolio. [25845/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of empty properties and land banks that have not yet been sold with regard to the assets of NAMA; and the negotiations that have taken place to acquire these homes for social and or affordable housing. [25847/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Legal Fees (13 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance the payments made by NAMA to law firms in 2018 and 2019. [3946/20]