Results 21-40 of 68 for nama speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...competing with other DACs, it would run afoul of state aid rules in the EU and there could be legal challenges in the European courts, as happened with the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. Therefore, it is about protecting the original Fine Gael idea of a land development agency as a commercial residential developer rather than a strategic land assembler. My two amendments are...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...be able to ask questions on the use of public moneys and lands as they would of Secretaries General of Departments. It is the normal practice not to allow this, but given the difficulties we have had with NAMA and the controversies around large financial and land transactions occurring out of public view because of commercial sensitivity redactions in freedom of information requests, I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...market profit or a limited profit. Therefore, we could have at a future stage legal challenges by large residential developers who will dispute the land valuation. It happened in the context of NAMA and some of its land deals. I respectfully disagree with Deputy McAuliffe that this is a mechanism to reduce the land to a nominal cost. If we were going to do that we would just use the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...residential property deals with other State agencies and potentially with commercial actors, depending on what happens. That is surprising given all the difficulties we have had, for example, with NAMA, and the lack of accountability and transparency and subsequently the very significant charges that deals were done without the adequate level of attention to the public interest. We only...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: .... Significant volumes of information about spending and borrowing are redacted and transparency is greatly diminished. That was one of the many problems with the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, and using public private partnerships being as a mechanism for delivery of social housing. I will not rehearse my arguments on why we should not take that approach. However, I am...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the price offered by NAMA to Dublin City Council and his Department for the purchase of land in the Poolbeg SDZ for the delivery of affordable homes; the discount on market price offered by NAMA in relation to same; and the reason his Department refused to provide funding to Dublin City Council to purchase the land. [26864/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (21 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...for Finance the status of the future of the National Asset Residential Property Services; and the options being considered for the future of the special purpose vehicle post the winding down of NAMA. [20663/21]

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: .... The very final section of the Bill does not make reference to the subsidiary DACs and unless that is amended, it is a glaring omission. While they will be subject to the provisions of the Comptroller and Auditor General, it is not in the same way as with NAMA. These are look-back audits and investigations which do not provide adequate transparency or accountability in real-time. They...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Social and Affordable Housing (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...; the number of same leased to social housing providers; the length of the lease terms; the annual cost of these leases to the State; and the future plans for NARPS including if his Department or NAMA are looking at either selling NARPS or expanding the activities of same to further develop social or affordable housing into the future. [41524/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (8 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...Government the status of efforts by his Department to deliver affordable housing on the Glass Bottle site, Ringsend, Dublin; and if the delivery of the homes has been affected by the inability of NAMA to reach a commercial agreement with Dublin City Council and his Department prior to the competitive process commencing for the site in July 2019. [29447/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Data (30 Jun 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential units delivered by NAMA or NAMA debtors by county, price and type of building, that is house, apartment, duplex and so on in tabular form. [13275/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...being delayed because the land cannot be transferred until the LDA is set up on a statutory footing. I welcome Ms Graham's comment to the effect that there will be a structured engagement. That is important because, as we know from NAMA, these are tricky and complex areas of EU law. Will she indicate when that will happen? Why did some level of engagement not happen in the context of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...be about land, not residential development. It is not an exaggeration to say that if this legislation ends up in the current format, we are potentially facing a National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, mark two. When I said that in the committee two weeks ago I thought Mr. John Coleman would recoil from it, but he was kind of nodding at that point - one can look at the committee meeting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...policy, whatever that is, and the types of commercial decisions that an independent designated activities company will have to make. This is one of the reasons some of us have raised the issue of NAMA and the publicly acknowledged conflict between its social remit and its commercial remit. We also need to be really clear about the 40% target. It is exactly as Dr. O'Connell indicates....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: .... We are in the process of scrutinising an agency which, if it does what Government policy wants it to do, will hold assets equal to or even greater than the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, over its life cycle. As I have been strongly of the view that we need an active land management agency with strong powers and a strong budget, I fully support that part of what is on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...a question about conflict between the commercial requirements of the designated activity companies and Government policy and nobody answered it, but it is a real issue. This was a constant problem with NAMA, where NAMA in its aims and objectives had to contribute to the social and economic development of the State, as this does, but it had in section 10 a clear, commercial obligation to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social Housing Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...is in the SDZ and has been approved by An Bord Pleanála. Dublin City councillors approved a requirement for 30% in the Poolbeg SDZ in respect of land that is all private, albeit under the control of a NAMA-appointed receiver. While An Bord Pleanála ruled that any such percentage would have to be voluntary because the law does not permit otherwise, it still demonstrates that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...is still a concern that, even with that significant subvention, house prices will still come in at a high level. What is Mr. Keegan's hope or expectation regarding the ongoing discussions between NAMA and the receiver?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (21 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the proposed sale by NAMA of the National Asset Residential Property Services DAC, NARPS, special purpose vehicle and the impact of a sale on the long-term security of tenure for the tenants of the 1,230 properties held by same. [21418/19]