Results 81-100 of 296 for nama speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...their means. That is just preposterous. I think it is happening again. All the developers who helped bankrupt the country, those greedy people who speculated on Irish housing then went into NAMA and were paid €200,000 a year to get back into business were nurtured back to profitability and then the State gave them back all the assets and property which we had at least off got...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: NAMA Portfolio (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has met or is considering meeting NAMA to discuss the part it can play in the delivery of social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1387/19]

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...not the main source for people entering into emergency accommodation and language here does matter. Deputy Boyd Barrett held up a newspaper advertisement recently of loans that had been owned by NAMA and that have now been sold. He called it public housing but it is not public housing. Language matters.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...investment deals. Over 1,600 apartments sold. Total value €610 million." The vast majority of these, of which approximately four are in my area, are National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, properties that were sold or are being sold to real estate investment trusts, REITs, or wealth asset management companies. The average price is approximately €380,000. The most recent...

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...real solutions. The Minister appealed for us not to be ideological and to be practical. I refer him to an advertisement in the property pages relating to the Honeypark site, which was previously in NAMA and given back to Cosgrave. The Government made the decision to give it back to Cosgrave, who it paid to build it out and now Cosgrave is making the money on it. The Government has...

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...they will build. In Cherrywood, for example, one of the biggest planned residential developments in the State, not a single unit has been built. The developers got it about six or seven years ago from NAMA. We should therefore take our chunk now, take a chunk near the entrance to Cherrywood so we avoid any of the servicing problems and so on and build our bit now. This would mean we...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...management companies, vulture funds or however we might want to describe the likes of the real estate investment trusts. They were invited here, it is fair to say, to buy property-related debt from NAMA and some of the banks we bailed out. They bought vast amounts of property and building land at discount prices and they have now gained a major foothold in the Irish property sector,...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...A specific window was deliberately opened up for these people in terms of intangible assets and property. It is in that window that we have this enormous scandal of a large amount of tax and of NAMA and the banks unloading vast amounts of property, building land and loans related to those. I do not buy the argument that it cannot be quantified because behavioural changes might have...

Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is not the first time that has been put forward, yet the Government continues to vote them down and defend the indefensible failure of its housing policies that have created this crisis, particularly the NAMA policies, the abandonment of the construction of council housing when it first came into power and, more recently, its continued reliance on vulture funds, real estate investment...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (13 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 173. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and location of all completed and unfinished residential units in NAMA's original portfolio including the residential units securing loans acquired by NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46744/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (13 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 174. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and location of all residential units sold by NAMA debtors receivers since inception; the number of those units sold at NAMA loan sales by year since its inception; the breakdown of the residential sales into lot sizes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46745/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (13 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 175. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of residential and zoned land in hectares sold by NAMA debtors and receivers and through loans sales since inception; if he will provide a list of the zoned residential sites by year, location and local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46746/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (13 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance the criterion used by NAMA to select residential units to be offered for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46748/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (13 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance the reasons given to NAMA for rejection and acceptance, respectively, by the local authorities and approved housing bodies of the social housing units offered to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46749/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Construction (13 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance the new developments in which residential units were funded by NAMA from inception to date in 2018, by the development location and local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46750/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The 2017 figure is misleading because we are talking about the window between about 2012 and the point at which the change was made in 2016. It was in this period that NAMA flogged off most of its land and assets, about €40 billion worth. It was not the little accidental landlord buying the stuff from NAMA; it was Kennedy Wilson, Cerberus, Lone Star and all these big boys. They...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans in relation to NAMA and the contribution it could make to delivering public and affordable housing in view of the housing emergency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44227/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will any of the agency's staff come from NAMA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All three current staff members are former NAMA staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do Mr. Coleman agree that, to some degree, the work of the LDA is to undo the damage done by NAMA in selling €40 billion worth of property at pretty low prices to developers who are now hoarding and speculating on vast amounts of land? Does he agree that the agency is needed to deal with the consequences of what NAMA did?