Results 41-60 of 103 for nama speaker:Ruth Coppinger

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Vehicle Corporations (19 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance if any analysis was carried out by his Department of the tax treatment of vulture funds prior to or after the sale of NAMA and State-owned bank assets to such funds. [22052/16]

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...increasing the social housing stock through acquisitions, voids, refurbishments and build. The difference is probably 16,000 houses a year, if one bases it on last year. Finally, I will mention NAMA. I do not have time to go into it, but NAMA has sold enough land already for 21,000 houses in key areas where it is needed and it has a claim on, or directly controls, 2,800 hectares of...

Other Questions: Housing Policy (29 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...led us to this problem in the first place. Second, the Minister of State should accept the fact that developers are deliberately not building because it would not be profitable enough. The CEO of NAMA let the cat out of the bag when he stated developers were not happy with a profit of €20,000 on a €300,000 house and were withholding on building until prices increased. I...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...What about the EU ban on public spending that is affecting our housing crisis? There has not been a peep about that. The spending by Ireland of money from the strategic investment fund and cash held by NAMA on our housing emergency is outlawed under EU rules but we should ignore this. Obviously, there were genuine fears among people who voted to remain about racism and intolerance....

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

Ruth Coppinger: ...appears to be in the private sector. For example, the Minister stated there is enough zoned land around Dublin. I have brought out this issue in questions to the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, and to others. While NAMA in reality has enough land zoned as residential land to house everyone on the housing waiting list, it cannot do that because of its brief. However, if there...

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

Ruth Coppinger: NAMA will not go beyond 10%. Will the Minister issue it with some new order to go beyond it?

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

Ruth Coppinger: There are two NAMA estates in my constituency. That is how I know.

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

Ruth Coppinger: In fairness, NAMA spent very little on doing up properties for social housing in proportion to its budget. I will get the figures for the Minister if he so wishes.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...Fingal County Council said it is meeting its targets. The council owns 15.5 acres in Blanchardstown that is zoned. That is all. There is nothing else left. Everything else is in the hands of either NAMA or private developers. No wonder Fingal County Council is meeting its target because it is 1,376. There are 10,000 people on the housing list. My point is that housing targets are...

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

Ruth Coppinger: ...the first deals in relation to Activate Capital, of which I am aware because it relates to a development in my constituency, involves Sean Reilly of McGarrell Reilly, who is one of the Anglo Maple 10, now back in business having been bailed out by NAMA. It is nice to see him back on his feet having had his loans written down by €153 million. McGarrell Reilly is currently building...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Social Justice Ireland (26 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...purpose vehicles will be critical to the committee. Departmental officials will appear before the committee next week to discuss this complex issue. I agree with Social Justice Ireland that NAMA should be used to address the housing problem. I have been arguing for two years that NAMA will be instrumental to resolving the issue because it currently controls one third of all development...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Social Justice Ireland (26 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The strategic investment fund has approximately €4 billion and NAMA has approximately €3 billion in cash reserves.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Simon Communities of Ireland (26 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...build 50,000 social houses. Obviously, that is the focus of many homelessness agencies. I wish to query a number of points in the submissions. The delegates called for a site levy, a role for NAMA and an increase in the proportion of Part V units to 20%. With regard to the allocation of 100% of local authority public housing to homeless people, Deputies might ask whether people are...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Threshold (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...to make it similar to the commercial sector in which tenants stay in situ,even if ownership changes. How does this work in the commercial sector? My information is that in the commercial sector NAMA has succeeded in securing rent decreases for 99% of applicants. We need rents to be decreased for residential tenants, but there does not seem to be any way this can be brought about except...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Finance Agency (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...be considered for the homelessness emergency. I am interested in hearing the witnesses' views on this because it will be critical. I met the Minister with responsibility for housing, who told us NAMA cannot be directed to build social and affordable housing because it is a special purpose vehicle and it would be on balance sheet. With regard to the issue of on and off balance sheet, it...

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

Ruth Coppinger: I want to ask some questions about NAMA's role in actually contributing to the housing crisis and its very minimal contribution to social and affordable housing. I also want to ask about NAMA's connection to the vulture funds and the impact that has on tenants who are living in those properties. I also want to ask about NAMA's write-downs to developers. Firstly I will turn to NAMA's...

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

Ruth Coppinger: Yes, exactly. The reason I raise this figure is because I am a little sick of hearing about starter homes that NAMA is allegedly delivering all over the country where demand is clear or where demand is greatest, as the witness said in his presentation. There is great demand in Dublin 15 where we have a massive housing crisis. However, there are two NAMA housing estates which are building...

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

Ruth Coppinger: Yes, NAMA inherited them, but how many were offered to the local authorities because it seems in this-----

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

Ruth Coppinger: Did NAMA offer 14,000 for social housing?

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

Ruth Coppinger: Okay. So why did NAMA say that it offered the vacant housing stock within the original portfolio?