Results 21-40 of 54 for nama speaker:Paul Murphy

Private Members' Business - Anti-Evictions Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...by housing campaigners, people faced with homelessness, trade unionists, artists and others. Those involved were pointing out, in real terms, that the State has the resources - in the form of NAMA, for example, as well as land and finances - to deal with the housing crisis. It was an unapologetic act of civil disobedience which said that it is better to break the law than to break the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (17 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on meetings he and his officials have had with so-called vulture funds since 2011; his views on NAMA transferring loans to such funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1748/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (17 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reports in the media (details supplied) regarding the mass sale of properties in County Limerick to a vulture fund by NAMA; his views on reports in that article that he met with vulture funds to encourage them to come to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1749/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (17 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the use of NAMA-controlled properties to assist in providing affordable housing to persons; if he will use his powers under the NAMA Act 2009 to this end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1751/17]

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...campaign and the Irish Housing Network, have decided to take action because they do not feel the Government's solutions are working. I salute them for demonstrating that resources exist in NAMA buildings that are not being used but could be used. I do not believe they are doing this in an amateurish or ham-fisted way. Their plan involves putting in place sustainable places for 30...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for that. The people occupying Apollo House today are illustrating the empty buildings owned by NAMA, owned by people of this country, and by taking it over they are showing how it can be put to use for ordinary people. The many prominent activists, people from the Irish Housing Network, the Home Sweet Home campaign, the Simon Community and many trade unionists...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...in Europe at 6.54%. This market has been created because of the absence of governmental action to deal with the issue of supply, which means investment in building homes using funds from the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, and the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF. The absence of such investment and the absence of rent controls means that rents have gotten completely out of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...bailout. However, question No. 17 on page 18 deals with the amount of the money that has gone from the State to Permanent TSB in that period of time via the redemption of National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, bonds and interest. The total is €2.548 billion, plus €200 million interest. When one balances them out over that period of time there has been a further net...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: NAMA Assets Sale (17 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the advertisement of NAMA rental properties for sale on the basis of the potential for large rent increases and reports that a bank (details supplied) intends to sell off up to €1.9 billion in distressed buy-to-let mortgages to vulture funds, in view of the impact this could have on tenants; and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...to the Minister and he is aware that a business relationship exists. Similarly, a business relationship existed with another man whom I will not mention and who had a relationship with NAMA regarding a hotel. The former Deputy, Mr. Walsh, made representations to the effect that it was likely to result in a loss of revenue for NAMA and the incurrence of unnecessary legal fees and that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the reports in the press (details supplied) of repeated lobbying by a former Deputy to NAMA in regard to his business partners' interests in properties controlled by NAMA and the allegation in those reports that those business relationships were not declared to NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34251/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...Deputy Brian Walsh lobbying repeatedly on behalf of his business partners, particularly Mr. Liam Mulryan and Michael Finn, over a period of close to three years without making any disclosure to NAMA of his business relationships with those two people? Does the Minister agree that it is entirely inappropriate, at the very least, and possibly a breach of the NAMA Act?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: I referenced the letter to NAMA from Mr. Brian Walsh on headed Deputy notepaper raising a question about the sale of land that was subsequently put on the open market and sold to Mr. Liam Mulryan. In the letter, he urges NAMA to take measures to rectify the situation in a manner that benefits the taxpayer. Elsewhere, he refers to being contacted by "a concerned member of the public",...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on block sales of NAMA rented residential properties being advertised (details supplied) for sale on the basis of the potential for very large rent increases, in view of the scale of the housing crisis and the likelihood rent increases on this scale could effectively lead to mass evictions of tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...of the Government in dealing with the housing crisis is to try to drive up the prices of starter homes. Incidentally, the Minister, Deputy Noonan, bemoaned the fact there are no starter homes whereas, until recently, he was telling us that NAMA was assisting in the building of starter homes in the State. That is the core strategy of the Government. There was an excellent article by...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...and that would get rid of the two-tier health service, there is a drive towards the National Treatment Purchase Fund ending up in private hospitals as opposed to making the necessary investment. In every single respect, this is a big business and a free-market budget. It is even more than that, however; it is a budget made for an Apple republic. It is made for a country the...

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (6 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...housing than any Government in the history of the State and this Government is committed to a market-led solution. What we need is massive public building of social housing using the resources of NAMA and so on. While we wait for these houses to come on stream, and it is questionable whether they ever will, we have a crisis right now because of the incredible price of rent. While the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Investigations (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support a full investigation into all of NAMA's major portfolio sales in view of the recent concerns regarding the sale of NAMA's Northern Ireland portfolio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27619/16]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...is no increase in the Estimate for the Revenue Commissioners compared to what was outlined in the budget. A significant event happened in terms of tax internationally in that space, namely, the Panama papers, which did detail a number of members of the Irish economic elite being connected to Mossack Fonseca. We know Ireland is a bit of a centre in terms of tax avoidance and that can...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: I asked about the Comptroller and Auditor General, in terms of NAMA.