Results 61-78 of 78 for nama speaker:Barry Cowen

Topical Issues Debate: Job Protection (11 Mar 2014)

Barry Cowen: ...in examinership after a management buy-out was deemed not to be successful because there were other parties seeking to enter the fray. The examiner has an obligation to act in the interests of NAMA, as has been explained. However, NAMA, too, has an obligation to act in the interest of taxpayers. We in this House have our own obligations to the people who give us the privilege to be...

Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Dec 2013)

Barry Cowen: ...credit. A key feature of the Planning and Development Act 2010 is the provision for an extension for planning permits for developments. This corresponds with the provisions in section 238 of the NAMA Act, pertaining to Part 3 of Schedule 8, where an application can be made to extend an existing planning permission for five years. A planning authority may extend the period of the...

Other Questions: Pyrite Resolution Board Membership (5 Dec 2013)

Barry Cowen: I ask the Minister to convey to the Minister of State with responsibility in this area that I advise caution on any commitments that will emanate from NAMA considering that 18 months ago Deputy Hogan told the House he expected up to 2,000 units would be made available from NAMA between then and now to address this issue of homeless, and those have not materialised. The Government should not...

Local Government (Town Centres) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2013)

Barry Cowen: ...securing community buy-in to achieving the plan’s objectives. Empty shops should be opened up for pop-up businesses rather than left vacant. Town teams should also be charged with interacting with NAMA to maximise the use of properties in their towns. In social terms, new cultural initiatives such as local festivals should be undertaken and market days held to foster a more...

Other Questions: NAMA Portfolio Issues (23 Oct 2013)

Barry Cowen: Can I confirm that the list the Minister will give me will give a detailed breakdown of what NAMA and the local authorities deem to be suitable for local authorities to take on board? Also, will the list show what, in the local authorities' eyes, are unsuitable, and the reasons they believe them to be unsuitable considering, as has been reiterated many times in this House by the Minister of...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)

Barry Cowen: ...to overlap. It is normal practice for such questions to be grouped. The Minister of State might respond to that in her reply. What discussions or negotiations has the Minister of State had with NAMA and the local authorities to seek to reap the social dividend that was to be received by the State in respect of the number of units within NAMA that were to be released to local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (8 Oct 2013)

Barry Cowen: ...being suitable for social housing; the number of properties accepted by local authorities for transfer; the number of properties transferred to date; the amount of money spent by his Department on NAMA properties for social housing use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41881/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Management and Operation of Housing Associations: Discussion (1 Oct 2013)

Barry Cowen: ...When will the private sector play an active role in the funding of housing associations to meet needs? I wish to ask all three witnesses about the direction being given by the Department. Once NAMA was put in place, we were promised a social dividend that would meet prevailing housing needs. What leadership has been given and from what source? As far as we can see, there has been no...

Topical Issue Debate: Priory Hall Development (19 Sep 2013)

Barry Cowen: ...days, as indicated last week. I understand that officials from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government have been instructed to meet Dublin City Council, the Irish Banking Federation, NAMA, former residents and other stakeholders and to report back with a proposed resolution. After two years of failure to act, during which the Minister for the Environment,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (12 Jun 2013)

Barry Cowen: ...of the number of properties identified by the National Assets Management Agency for social housing provision; the number accepted as suitable by local authorities; the number transferred from NAMA to the local authority or housing association to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28196/13]

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)

Barry Cowen: ...having such an effect on or society, to bring forward a coherent and effective means by which the Government can address that in co-operation with local authorities. The failure heretofore to utilise NAMA properties to address housing problems is a damning indictment of the failure of imagination on the Minister of State's part to confront these challenges. There was always an...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (12 Mar 2013)

Barry Cowen: ...county of the number of properties identified by the National Assets Managment Agency for social housing provision; the number accepted as suitable by local authorities; the number transferred from NAMA to the local authority or housing association; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12865/13]

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2013)

Barry Cowen: ..., thus leaving local authorities' housing sectors desperately underfunded. This has resulted in close to 100,000 households on waiting lists for local authority housing across the State. Meanwhile, NAMA has advised that it has identified roughly 3,900 residential properties controlled by its debtors and receivers as being available for social housing provision. To date, demand has been...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 Nov 2012)

Barry Cowen: ..., RAS and by local authorities rather than the HSE managing the rent allowance scheme. However, part of that should be also by means of the State deriving, as was intended, a social dividend from NAMA. Part of that can be also by means of the State, in conjunction with local authorities, auditing the land bank, releasing land to the market and using funds derived from that release to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Barry Cowen: .... Is this amount sufficient to tackle social housing waiting lists? Is it almost whittling away at local authorities' functions in this area by virtue of housing associations, private finance or deals with NAMA becoming sufficient to meet the challenge of social housing needs across the country? The Exchequer initiated a contribution at least at the start of this year of €175...

Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2011)

Barry Cowen: ...or initiation of co-operation might be instigated by the Minister with her counterpart in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government in order that the stock of housing in NAMA may have a social dividend for the State. There are 100,000 people on this scheme, which, as the Minister rightly says, was never intended to be a long-term solution but has ended up being...

Rent Allowance (13 Oct 2011)

Barry Cowen: ...at a lesser cost to the taxpayer? In this instance, such goals cannot be achieved through a large budget for rent allowance, but could be achieved through utilisation of the social dividend that NAMA owes to the taxpayers of this State. Has there been some co-operation on this between the Minister and the Minister of State with responsibility for housing? Has the Minister sought to...

Rent Allowance (13 Oct 2011)

Barry Cowen: ...houses are vacant and a further 17,000 are at various stages of construction. That oversupply must be tackled vigorously and immediately in order to seek the dividend which could be demanded of NAMA for the State. Such an approach would afford the Minister the leverage she needs to honour the commitments she and her party have given.