Results 21-40 of 78 for nama speaker:Barry Cowen

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (13 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of total available development land in which NAMA has a financial interest in each of the ten strategic development zones. [39439/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Barry Cowen: 663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total number of NAMA units offered to the local authority in tabular form on a county by county basis; and the number accepted and transferred per annum from 2011 to date. [26395/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Barry Cowen: ...the extraordinary amount of funding necessary to provide the extraordinary number of units required. We have to think outside the box and find new means and methods. We heard from representatives of NAMA recently. One of its success stories has been the National Asset Residential Properties Service, NARPS, initiative. This is a special purpose vehicle that can purchase and lease units...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Barry Cowen: ...in a manner that we can all stand over and be happy about. National Asset Residential Property Services Limited, NARPS, has the potential to be successful in its own right within the confines of NAMA and the constraints associated with it by virtue of the overarching legislation associated with the agency. That can be progressed and that is something for the Government, ourselves and...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (24 May 2016)

Barry Cowen: I ask this question against the background of a couple of issues that must be stated. NAMA has sold Project Arrow in recent months, with supposedly 50% as residential units that could have been acquired for the guts of €100,000 per unit. We have seen Dublin City Council refuse many units from NAMA in Ballymun because of the tenure mix. I cannot imagine why it did not allow an...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (24 May 2016)

Barry Cowen: ...a question to him on the SDZ he mentioned, the Irish Glass Bottle site. I welcome the potential that exists there for development in the short and medium term. He mentioned the pivotal role that NAMA will have in delivering 20,000 units and he spoke about the mix that should exist throughout the country, let alone on one site. Will the Minister make a commitment, as a sign of the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Barry Cowen: ...that local authorities are refusing units and the reasons for this. Picking up on the points made by Deputy O'Dowd, I sought further information recently from Dublin City Council about offers that NAMA had made to them. I think NAMA had offered the council in the region of 828 units. NAMA subsequently sold 190 of them. Within that, however, the main reason was the tenure mix. That was...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Barry Cowen: NAMA has entered into many long-term leasing arrangements with local authorities and housing associations. How does that sit with its lifespan? How does that sit with the dividend that is to be returned to the State? When is it expected there will be an interim dividend? When is NAMA's lifespan due to end and what dividend can the State expect? While I respect and acknowledge that the...

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: ...in order for the desired results to come on stream much more quickly and efficiently. I ask that the committee should consider other proposals, such as the commitment by the Government in regard to NAMA-developed housing developments over the course of the next two years. This provides that 10% of these will be designated as social and affordable housing. That must be improved and...

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: ...is the stumbling block. When one compares that cost to the price of units in various parts of the country, the costs far outweigh some of the prices that are being achieved, despite the fact that, for example, NAMA is selling units which the Government is not interested in taking on board. That is a mistake of the past and it cannot be allowed to happen again in the future. It is...

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Barry Cowen: ...of measures, whether in or out of Government. Capital funding would be provided to renovate social housing units. We will seek the passing by the Dáil of a Bill to regulate vulture funds. We would seek to renegotiate the NAMA house building plan in order to increase the number of social and affordable units to 20%, given that the previous Government reduced it to 10%. We will...

Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: Then he said that NAMA owned the loans, not the land. For God's sake, the land is the security that determines the value of the loan. The return on the investment in the land will repay the State. The Fine Gael attitude is that we get as much as we can and we throw it into the public finances to show the improvements we have made in those finances and to hell with those within the State...

Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: ...impression keys were handed out. They were not. Another point made was that our proposal was somehow breaking the law with regard to the provision contained in the legislation giving effect to NAMA, that the Minister for Finance cannot direct NAMA to construct houses for the benefit of the State, despite the fact there was an implicit clause in the legislation that there should be a...

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: ...due to lack of action the number of people on the social housing list has been allowed to rise to 130,000; agrees that there is a national housing crisis; notes that the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, have been given responsibility to build 20,000 houses on behalf of the State; condemns the Government for only allocating 10 per cent of this stock for social housing as this...

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: ...when we learned that it is spending €191,000 per unit on the 500 temporary modular homes that are being developed. This amounts to €95.5 million. While this has been going on, the Government has allowed NAMA to sell completed permanent homes to vulture funds for €100,000 a unit. This means €50 million is being wasted while the Government fails in its attempt...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: Can the private sector apply to NAMA for funding?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: 4. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will describe the discussions and negotiations he has had with the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, in respect of increasing its provision of social housing units; if he is satisfied the agency is doing all within its authority and legal mandate to increase the supply of social housing; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: What discussions were held with NAMA to increase the supply of social housing units? What percentage of the 20,000 units committed to in the budget will the agency deliver? Can the Minister of State clarify whether this number is separate from last week's announcement of 20,000 units for Dublin? With regard to the interest rate clients of NAMA are charged, competitors are reputedly being...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: I thank the Minister of State for his response but I refer him again to the questions I asked. What discussions were held with NAMA recently regarding the budget announcement to increase social housing supply and when were they held? Notwithstanding the grave mistake to reduce the Part V contribution from 20% to 10% of private developments, the Minister of State said that of the 20,000...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: Housing provision is currently in crisis. That has called for better delivery by NAMA in respect of the social dividend that was promised when it was set up. It now appears that there was nothing new in last week's announcement in respect of providing additional units and that there will be fewer units available to the State in the form of a social dividend by virtue of the change made to...