Results 21-40 of 107 for nama speaker:Gerry Adams

Dáil Reform: Statements (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: ...Féin were prevented from having motions that were properly submitted on scrapping water charges, health and hospital crises, Moore Street, and making the case for the establishment of a commission of investigation into the sale of NAMA's loan book. We wanted all of these debated here, but were not allowed to do that. At the last sitting on 22 March, Deputy Ó Snodaigh and I...

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Gerry Adams: ...security and certainty for tenants and to support homeowners and buyers. It is possible to stop the profiteering of banks at the cost of mortgage holders. It is possible to ensure that a minimum of 4,000 of NAMA's 20,000 private homes are used for social housing. Most of all, it is possible to invest an additional €2.2 billion in housing to provide 36,500 new homes over the next...

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Gerry Adams: ...and health crisis and on the need for a national monument to take in all of Moore Street. I want to make the case again for an investigation into the sale of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA’s, Northern loan book. The Taoiseach, the Minister for Finance and the Tánaiste have all dodged that question for the past two years when I and others put it to them. The...

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Gerry Adams: Does that not say much about the palaver of Dáil reform? We submitted these motions in good faith. There is a scandal around NAMA and I and others have asked for the past two years straight questions of the Government but we never got answers on them. The committee in the Northern Ireland Assembly has now brought forward a very detailed report, and part of the motions spoken about by...

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...Minister in the Government at making things up as he or she goes along. He also has a deep concern about his legacy. He actually told us that. He is also the Minister who persists in saying the 20,000 NAMA units due to built by 2020 should be sold on the private market, rather than used as social housing. NAMA is owned by the State and its citizens, yet these units will be built for...

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: For years Sinn Féin has raised concerns about the sale of NAMA's loan books, including its Northern loan books. I have raised the issue with the Taoiseach on several occasions. It is not just an issue about the North or, as the Tánaiste described it, just a Northern tale; rather, it is a national tale. The revelations, which the Minister conceded in his remarks today, that an...

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: .... How does the Taoiseach intend to reassure residents that unscrupulous property developers and not unfortunate residents will be held responsible for unsafe building work, given the fact that NAMA, local councils and the Government have been aware for years of these health and safety issues? Will the Taoiseach spell out the steps he has taken to deal with this scandalous situation? As...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Gerry Adams: The Government would not let NAMA go.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Gerry Adams: ..., Deputy Noonan, and the Taoiseach about this? Surely, as Tánaiste and leader of the Labour Party she would agree, in the light of all these disclosures which are not Northern matters because, as has been said, NAMA is a national body and the money involved, in terms of the loans that are being sold, is taxpayers' money, that there is enough evidence to justify a series of...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Gerry Adams: For most of the lifetime of this Dáil, Sinn Féin has been raising concerns about the sale of NAMA's loan books, including its Northern loan book. There is now a growing scandal around the revelations that an illegal £15 million fixer's fee was to be paid as part of the sell-off of this Northern loan book. As the Tánaiste may be aware, this matter was brought to NAMA's...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...this is a Northern tale. She stated that it was being dealt with by a committee of the Assembly. She then conceded that the Government is not co-operating with the Northern Assembly committee - that NAMA has refused to appear before it, as has the Minister. I received, as a result of a freedom of information request, the briefing pack for Ministers on this issue. It states that the...

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2015)

Gerry Adams: Just for the record, there are serious claims of wrongdoing by NAMA. I have written to the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance about this matter. I have yet to receive a satisfactory reply. I want to raise another issue here this morning. I have sent notice of this matter to the Taoiseach because it is very serious. On 26 August last, the two back wheels of an ambulance coming from...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...the world in which to do business, but who did the Taoiseach protect? What did Fine Gael and the Labour Party do and whom did they look after? They certainly protected the property developers. NAMA has been allowed to pay developers' salaries of €200,000 a year while the Government has taken medical cards from children. The Government protected bondholders and billions have been...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...still being involved. One of the conditions of the sale process of the northern portfolio, following the withdrawal of Pimco, was that no former director should receive payment as a result of NAMA transactions. However, we know the law firm involved in the Cerberus deal had €7 million lodged in an offshore account. That is an awful lot of public money. The Minister, Deputy...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: I have previously raised widespread concerns about the operation of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. This deals with billions of euro in public assets being sold to vulture capitalists behind closed doors and without any democratic oversight. NAMA has been ordered by the Government to wind up faster than its 2020 remit, which also raises concerns about a fire sale of assets; we...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...question, is to suspend non-contracted disposals activity for a time-limited examination of the books. Recently, the Dublin county board of the GAA failed in a bid to buy the Spawell centre from NAMA although it offered more than the €6.5 million asking price. Why would this be so? Cumann Lúthchleas Gael is an organisation of which we are all proud. Is this not the type of...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: ..., paid €230 million for loans owed by Arnotts and he secured 50% of the company. What this anonymous person has just done is a perfect example of someone acquiring assets while subject to NAMA, in this case from the IBRC. Last week, this anonymous person, whose name is in all of the newspapers but whom I am advised I cannot name-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: Because it is in the public interest to do so. I am asking the Taoiseach to ensure NAMA prioritises the interests of the citizens and the taxpayers. Will he establish an independent audit of remaining NAMA properties to determine which of these could be made available for social and economic development? I repeat my first question: will the Taoiseach agree to a suspension of non-contracted...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: Yesterday, the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, lost a five-year battle at public expense to prevent details of its loans and properties being provided to the public. Why would NAMA want to prevent citizens knowing about its activities? Is it not unfair and unjust that the taxpayer might have to pay for NAMA’s effort to prevent the very same taxpayer knowing what the agency is...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...was only incorporated on 27 May as a vehicle for the purchase of Clerys' assets. It is a joint venture between Cheney Capital Management and D2 Private. A senior executive at Cheney Capital Management is a former NAMA executive. D2 Private is run by a former KPMG employee. KPMG is also the special liquidator of Clerys. The Taoiseach will recall that KPMG also featured in the IBRC...