Results 61-80 of 296 for nama speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...this today when I saw a really obnoxious video about the tale of two Covids in this country when it comes to housing, a video of Johnny Ronan, a Celtic tiger property developer who got all his NAMA land back from us and whose name is plastered over development sites all over this city who is making an absolute fortune-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...except building council houses on land that is ours. That this is not acceptable. I refer to tenants, and I raise this matter again. The tenants in St. Helen's Court in Dún Laoghaire, which was bought from NAMA by vulture funds, are facing the fourth effort by those vulture funds to evict them, and the Minister's Government made the decision to sell it to those funds. Threshold...

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...private partnerships, the Land Development Agency or any other privatisation mechanism where such land should be used for public and affordable housing. The National Asset Management Agency's, NAMA's, remaining land assets and cash should be deployed to the provision of affordable housing, which should be genuinely affordable for those on average incomes. In addition, we should give more...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the extra money being crowed about by the Minister of State is going. The number of real council houses being built is abysmal and everything else is money going out the door into the pockets of NAMA developers that have been rehabilitated, vulture and cuckoo funds and big corporate landlords. They are making a killing. This budget has nothing about rents. What has been done to...

Brexit Contingency Action Plan: Statements (11 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...When we talk about nationalisation to protect jobs and industries, we are told that it cannot be done. Despite this, we could pass emergency legislation to nationalise banks to bail them out. Through NAMA, we also ultimately bailed out the developers who crashed those banks. We can do that but it is apparently ridiculous to talk about nationalising key sectors of the economy to protect...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Policy and Budgetary Planning: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...witnesses from CIF to elaborate on that point. Before the meeting, I spoke informally to them about this issue and I am not sure how to get out of this dilemma. As I pointed out, despite buying land from NAMA at relatively low prices, developers and builders are having extreme difficulty making a profit when they build on this land. I know some have bought land at the more inflated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...or rent. I would appreciate a comment on that issue, specifically about the site at Shanganagh. I have two other brief questions. To what extent, if any, is either of the agencies interacting with NAMA on sites? Is it not at all? To what extent, if any, is either of the agencies dealing with the affordable component of private developments where there has been local infrastructure...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in Dún Laoghaire seems to know no bounds. The latest ruse, which I would also ask the Minister to examine, sees property agents in the Cualanor and Honeypark developments, which were in NAMA before being sold to vulture funds and so on, using a very obscure calculation of people's income in order to rule out housing assistance payment, HAP, tenants. Even when the council has said...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...homelessness crisis for at least a decade. What can we do? We can dramatically ramp up council housing provision, the number of which the Government proposes to deliver is pathetic. For example, NAMA, which financed 2,500 homes last year that were sold on to the private sector, could be instructed not to sell properties into the private sector. We should be using NAMA owned land to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness (18 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to compensate for the fact that Government has failed to meet its construction targets. Current and capital expenditure going to the private sector at extortionate cost will probably reach, when one throws in NAMA and everything else, €2 billion. It is madness when we could build the houses for a fraction of the price on public land.

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 4:To delete all words after “calls on the Government to:” and substitute with: “— merge the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), the Housing Agency, Housing Finance Agency and the Land Development Agency and all their land, resources and assets to establish a State-owned housing construction company, which will work with local authorities...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Minister's response to that. Across the road from my constituency office in Dún Laoghaire is a block of apartments. In that block of apartments, which I am pretty certain was in the hands of NAMA and then ended up in the hands of a crowd called Apollo Global Management-----

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...delivered is of a lower spec and substandard compared to the housing provided in private developments, which is wrong. My last point concerns the scandal of selling off public land, including NAMA lands and property, to speculators and land hoarders, including the Sentinel building in Sandyford. It is a scandal.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Into selling off oversupply by NAMA.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Citizens Assembly (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...The other matter I will mention briefly is the pathetic lack of childcare facilities. For example, a considerable development in my area, the Honeypark-Cualanor housing development, which was a NAMA development, included provision for a crèche. There is no crèche, despite the development being completed a while ago, because it is dependent on the private market to deliver...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is a whole generation locked out. While that is happening, what is happening to the landlords to which the Government sold vast amounts of property through the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA? The situation has even been condemned by the United Nations, which agrees with what we are saying. A total of 93% of the property assets sold by NAMA have been sold to foreign investors...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Berlin. There is nothing comforting in what the Tánaiste has said. He has not responded to the charge that the Government's policy has essentially been about transferring large amounts of land from NAMA, based on the banks we bailed out, to the people who are now profiteering to obscene levels. The business section of today's edition of The Irish Timesreports that even those who are...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Analysis and Fiscal Risks: Central Bank of Ireland (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...on social housing, are dependent on renting back property, through the housing assistance payment, rental accommodation and social leasing schemes, from the institutional investors to which NAMA sold that property-----

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...we need a fundamental rethink and that housing should be seen as a human right to be provided by a decent society, has been used as an opportunity, primarily through the vehicles of the banks and NAMA, to further enrich a certain layer of people who make money from property. What I heard the Minister, Deputy Murphy, talk about earlier is just rubbish. He said we were moving in the...

No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...with his other developer friends, yet the State engaged with him. The National Asset Management Agency paid him €200,000 to get his business going again. Mr. Mulryan then got himself out of NAMA with the assistance of some of the major international financial operators and is now back in control of sites in the docks, which he is flogging to the Central Bank for about €200...