Results 81-100 of 103 for nama speaker:Brian Stanley

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (4 Feb 2014)

Brian Stanley: ...year. There are more than 100,000 people on the waiting list. Housing need has doubled. In County Laois the housing waiting list has more than doubled over the last four years. Fewer than 500 NAMA properties have been developed. Private rents are increasing. Some of the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, tenants who rely on social leasing are being moved on because landlords decide...

Other Questions: Unfinished Housing Developments (5 Dec 2013)

Brian Stanley: ...in, the Minister might take on board an idea I heard this morning, that where the State has to pick up the tab on estates on which there is some infrastructure, it acquire the sites, especially if NAMA is involved. This would be cost-neutral and the sites could be used for the development of affordable and social housing.

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)

Brian Stanley: .... Under our stimulus package, Sinn Féin proposes and is committed to building 9,000 homes in 18 months. There are 112,000 people on housing lists across the 34 local authorities. There are 33,000 empty homes in unfinished estates. NAMA has identified 3,500 homes that are ready for allocation to social and voluntary housing. The Minister of State with responsibility for housing...

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

Brian Stanley: ...or the social dividend for the people? The situation in which we find ourselves is absolutely ridiculous. The Government must do two things. First, it must seek to put those families who are waiting to be housed into houses. NAMA has identified 3,200 apartments and houses which are ready for habitation. It is somewhat shocking, therefore, that according to the most recent figures I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Unfinished Housing Developments (1 May 2013)

Brian Stanley: ...houses and another 9,976 almost complete but vacant houses. This is a total of more than 33,000 houses in 1,655 developments with works outstanding in categories 2, 3 and 4. At the time, the NAMA share was listed in the report as 3,200 homes possibly available for social housing use. Two years on, however, how many of those 3,200 houses have been brought into use? The report mentioned...

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

Brian Stanley: ...enough homes to meet the needs of the 250,000 people who make up those 98,000 households that are on the waiting lists, and now we have the sight of unfinished estates lying dormant, some of them in the hands in NAMA. There are empty houses but there are people who do not have houses. In my county, there are 1,700 households languishing on the waiting list, yet houses lie unfinished in...

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: ...cobbling together a deal that would not satisfy anyone. Simply extending an unfair debt over a longer period does not make the debt any fairer. This evening's leaked news that IBRC may be liquidated with the assets going to NAMA, the debts sent to a bridging bank or the Central Bank - which will mean Joe and Mary Taxpayer picking it up - and creating a bond to push it down the road by...

Other Questions: NAMA Social Housing (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: On question No. 193, the problem is that the State, through the taxpayer, is taking on the liability with NAMA. As Deputy Ellis indicated, NAMA is a State company which means it is owned by the citizens of the State. The problem is that we have taken on the liability but now NAMA seems to be in hock to the developers, in the sense that it is leasing from them. I have a suggestion that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Asset Management Agency (4 Dec 2012)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. I acknowledge some good work has been done in respect of NAMA houses and houses in unfinished estates with the money used for safety purposes. However there is a problem with the houses themselves and not the infrastructure in that a promise was made that many housing units would come on-stream for social housing. If I heard the Minister of...

Topical Issue Debate: Job Creation (13 Nov 2012)

Brian Stanley: ...the counties in Portlaoise, Mountrath, Mountmellick, Portarlington, Birr, Edenderry and Tullamore. To take Portarlington alone, there is a huge Avon factory in Portarlington mainly under the control of NAMA because of the current position. There is a huge opportunity there and I know NAMA and other interested parties would like to see that used for something more purposeful. I ask the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Brian Stanley: ...good. Social housing needs to be built outside Dublin also. Some people may say that the solution is to wave a magic wand but I would not agree. There are a number of solutions, however, one of which is to use some of the NAMA properties. We should try to get houses that are 80% or 90% finished into use as social housing as they waiting list for social housing has become longer. At...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of IBRC: Discussion (31 Oct 2012)

Brian Stanley: It is reported the operational costs of IBRC are 50% more than NAMA for 2011 even though NAMA has a much larger loan portfolio. I recognise the bank's operational costs have fallen from €157 million to €129 million, a fall of 18% in the last year. Is IBRC, despite its small loan portfolio, less efficient than NAMA? Is that why operational costs are so high?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Brian Stanley: I refer to commercial properties and the fact that NAMA has taken on responsibility for the loans against them. These properties are lying vacant and being vandalised. For example, in Portarlington, there is a large factory which at one stage provided significant employment, but it lies vacant in a good location with security on it ceasing one year ago. It is being vandalised, but NAMA...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Brian Stanley: Has NAMA gone to IDA Ireland regarding properties such as the one I described? Is it being proactive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Brian Stanley: If NAMA is not legally precluded from doing so, will Mr. Daly publish the independent valuation on the property Mr. Farrell bought?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Brian Stanley: On the social housing question, there are 3,800 properties identified, and 2,000 assessed. There is demand for more than 1,200 but I understand the qualification which applies, that what NAMA is dealing with is the demand from the voluntary housing associations, and they have indicated to NAMA 1,200 properties between them and local authorities. I understand only 70 properties have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Brian Stanley: ...bonds and €2 billion were unsecured. As I understand it, Mr. McDonagh would be confident of recouping the secured bonds. In the case of the €2 billion subordinated bonds, it is more or less an aim of NAMA to recoup them. In that regard, there would be a concern that NAMA, and ultimately the taxpayer, could take a hit on those €2 billion in bonds. Have we any way of...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2012)

Brian Stanley: ...the community sector. The savings from this measure - a paltry €6 million - are minimal. At the same time, the Government established the biggest and most expensive quango in the history of the State, namely NAMA. It is clear that the focus of the Government's attacks is on the community sector and the communities it serves. Based on the figures available, 31% of workers in the...

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (22 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to appoint someone from a company (details supplied) to the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, advisory board; if he will outline if such an appointment will be made from the advisory company or the investment company; if he believes a conflict of interest will arise as a result someone from this company being on the NAMA...

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (29 Jun 2011)

Brian Stanley: ...support of payments from the National Assets Management Agency; the level of support or payment each person has received for their business broken down on a monthly basis since the establishment of NAMA; the location of these businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17929/11]