Results 81-100 of 103 for nama speaker:Ruth Coppinger

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: What about NAMA’s capital reserves?

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...it as bases for evicting tenants unless it can be proven that the landlord would otherwise suffer undue economic hardship; — reversal of the Rent Supplement cuts that have taken place; — a sufficient number of ‘National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) hotel rooms’, which as of last year accounted for one in eight of all hotel rooms, be dedicated to the...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...;69 million to secure accommodation for people. The money is not for the building of social or affordable housing. The capital allocation has not been increased. This is purely the current allocation for social housing. How amazing that NAMA has not been brought into play by the Government, given the misery people are suffering. All that has been said is that NAMA will build 20,000...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: .... The key problem is planning. If the Minister really thought it was an emergency, he would be introducing emergency legislation to allow the Government to acquire the land that exists. For example, NAMA has ownership of one third of all the land in Dublin. The Government would be building houses and fast-tracking social and affordable houses rather than relying on modular homes. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...out of the area again to a temporary building in Blanchardstown village. The Department has put the project out to tender and the road is delayed due to land ownership issues. Are those with NAMA or the developer, Twinlite? I have submitted this Priority Question on behalf of a large community in west Dublin. The Minister of State hopes that the school will be ready, but he has not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Is it down to NAMA?

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...the managers of those authorities. He knows that is not true. If any councils had the funding to build social houses - which they have done before - they would do it. The Taoiseach says that NAMA's remit is to return money to the taxpayer. It is not - NAMA's remit is to return money to the banks. While it expects to recoup €1 billion for the taxpayer, it will give €12...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...fixture, just like the hotels which he told them were only for short-term use. They have been in them for between ten months and one year. When people hear what the Taoiseach has to say about NAMA, and see that he leaves it untouched while they languish in hotels and hostels, would he agree that they are now perfectly entitled to stage occupations of NAMA houses and vacant houses?...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: We took part in the occupation of a NAMA house last week and it seems that is the only thing the Taoiseach knows - protest - because he is not listening to the rational arguments of people here today.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...of a housing crisis did the Taoiseach see fit to reduce the social housing obligation on private developers, from 20% to 10%? Why, in the middle of a housing and homeless crisis, is he allowing NAMA to sell off hoards of property at a massive discount? Why is he allowing the biggest construction operation in the world not to come into play to provide social and affordable housing? Will...

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

Ruth Coppinger: We are being asked today to vote confidence in the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government. I begin by expressing solidarity with the homeless families in Blanchardstown who are currently occupying a NAMA-built home. They stayed there over night and, by their actions, clearly have no confidence in the Taoiseach or his Government. Last night, I slept on a concrete floor with some of the...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...on the basis that developers are being granted the very valuable resource of planning permission. The idea that local authorities have to pay private developers which are crawling their way out of NAMA or trying to get back into the market at this level is outrageous. I refer to the alternative arrangements provided for in the Bill. They include entering into a rental accommodation...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...throughout the Bill. The proposed vacant site levy, which the amendments address, will reduce the levy for developers with outstanding loans on or negative equity in their sites. Developers in NAMA, receivership or negative equity could be exempted. That is the sum total. The lands in question are needed urgently. In fact, we should be taking them over. In my area of Dublin 15,...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...in hotels, if they are "lucky", at huge cost to the taxpayer. If the Minister is going to make it more likely that landlords will evict people for not paying water charges, would he at least consider asking NAMA to do something? NAMA owns 12% of the hotels in this country, none of which are in use for homeless people but could be used. Is that not something to which the Minister should...

Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Resolution Processes (24 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...rules the Government favours because it wants to sell the bank off, to privatise it, which is a real mistake. Developers are getting write-downs from the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, which was never intended to happen. The late Brian Lenihan and the then Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, promised that would never happen and it is happening. There is one law for the rich, the 1%, and...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...units? The leasing alternative is likely to become the norm for cash-starved councils, with the result that they will pay rent to developers for an indefinite period. This is already happening under NAMA's social housing leasing initiative. They will never become owners of these properties and tenants will not have the security they enjoy in local authority housing. This is related to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...who desperately need it. They are only interested in providing housing for profit. The only people in a position to buy houses right now are people who already have a lot of money. One could ask what NAMA is doing while all this is going on. I received figures from NAMA on Dublin 15. Is the Taoiseach and his Minister aware that not one social house is planned in the greater...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: There is not one house in Dublin 15. The reason for that is because the council does not have any land, and also because NAMA has many houses in Dublin 15. It has 170 units in Hollywood Rath on 20.98 acres. As to the type of unit in question, they are mansions. No one in Dublin 15 who is on the housing list can afford them. We have a housing crisis but let NAMA, which is paid for by the...

Other Questions: NAMA Bonds (7 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: My question relates to the value of NAMA bonds to be redeemed for year from 2015 to 2018, broken down on a bank by bank basis, and the cost of NAMA to the State.

Other Questions: NAMA Bonds (7 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The entire matter of NAMA needs to be reviewed. Beginning in March 2010, NAMA purchased loans from five banks for par value or the total borrower debt owed on them in October 2009, which amounted to €74.4 billion. It paid for the loans with NAMA bonds carrying a face value of €31.8 billion. As the bonds were guaranteed by the then Minister for Finance, they are effectively...