Results 41-60 of 68 for nama speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...and my party do not support the creation of a new State-wide agency to finance or develop public housing . We want the local authorities to be equipped and empowered to do precisely that. I also do not accept that NAMA should have any role after its current mandate is up. I would like the surplus from NAMA to be reinvested in a variety of public infrastructure projects and housing would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Mar 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...have created considerable incentives for new flows of capital into the country to invest in land. Deputy Wallace has done a considerable amount of work on what those flows of money were doing with NAMA and commercial properties, but now that much of the distressed assets from the commercial property crash have been bought and sold, we are seeing that money wash its way into the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Expenditure (27 Mar 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance the full cost of the social housing units leased from the National Asset Residential Property Services, NARPS; the cost of the initial loans purchased by NAMA; the cost of purchasing the units by NARPS; and the full length and cost of the leases. [14429/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...important. My question is purely factual so I can understand the logic of the report. Tallaght Cross contains 65 units that were purchased from a debtor to the National Asset Management Agency NAMA by South Dublin County Council. South Dublin County Council took a decision to use them as emergency accommodation. It is managed by Túath Housing. Families that present as homeless...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Although each project is different and none of the data therefor are particularly comparable, the data provided by the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland, NAMA and even the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government indicate that build costs for houses, rather than multi-unit apartments, are in the region of €140,000. Costs such as site servicing, land offsets and so on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Agency Data (7 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...; the number of contracts signed; the number of properties sold on to approved housing bodies; the average cost of these homes; the number of properties that previously had their loans secured by NAMA; and the number of these properties that were previously offered for purchase to local authorities or other State agencies. [36333/18]

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...finance, it is not as if there is not a wash of international investment in Irish property. We have seen that in the large amounts of capital entering the State to buy distressed assets from the portfolios of IBRC and NAMA in the commercial sector and increasingly in the residential sector, especially student accommodation. That capital is entering the State on profitable terms. I...

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...into the bond market themselves, this money is being invested in property. When investors started coming to this jurisdiction, in the first instance they were looking at distressed assets and focused on the portfolios of IBRC or NAMA, both in commercial and residential property. They are now moving into residential on a new scale, whether it is in terms of investment trusts, student...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...scheme or stuck in probate. I fully support the proposal to increase the Part V requirements. I fully support the critique and proposed changes to LIHAF. I warmly welcome the renewed call to amend the NAMA mandate. Without those changes, we will never achieve the level of affordability required. I support the motion and I urge the Minister to at least publish the strategy on vacant...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (29 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units brought into social housing use via NAMA by year and local authority; the number by local authority purchase, approved housing body purchase and narrows lease; the annual cost each year to secure these units for social housing use; the estimated future annual costs arising from these units that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (17 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 118. To ask the Minister for Finance the mechanisms available to NAMA and the proposed home building finance Ireland to ensure the provision of affordable homes on public or private lands. [43837/17]

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the decision that we will not accept them. This is not because we have huge disagreements with them, but, rather, because we want to keep the focus of this Private Members' business on the four key issues to which I refer. We have some differences over the mechanics of how best to mobilise the assets and resources of NAMA. There are some parts of the People Before Profit amendment that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ..., someone has to step in to defend the local authorities. Local authorities can only do what the Department allows them to do. It is important to note that while some of them turned down good properties linked with NAMA, they often did so either because they were not given funding by the Department or for other reasons. It is important, therefore, that we consider the culpability of the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to notify the House that last night in Dublin a group of 100 citizens occupied a building in Tara Street in which NAMA has an interest, as part of the Home Sweet Home campaign to highlight the plight of homelessness in the city and the need for even more action from the Government. I commend them on what they have done. They are citizens who are appalled by the level of homelessness...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...work with the Minister to try to bring forward the regulations as a matter of urgency. I accept the Deputy's core point. I was a member of a local authority and we scrutinised the issue of NAMA houses very carefully. Two of the main problems for local authorities - apart from those properties which were unsuitable for social housing use - was the length of time it took the Department...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...both the Department and the housing managers. Is it not possible for us to consider large-scale, local authority-led, mixed tenure, mixed income estates on local authority land, funded through a NAMA NARPS-type vehicle? I point to the Grange as one possibility, but is that not something the Department can actively consider? I ask this because it is somewhat simpler than having to come...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to tease out a little further the potential off-balance sheet options. We have a potentially significant investment capacity in ISIF and we have a vehicle that we know works in NAMA Asset Residential Property Services, NARPS, whether it is kept as NARPS or NARPS 2. The difficulty is that if it is used as a way of providing 100% social housing, there is no commercial return because...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Dr. Ronan Lyons, Trinity College Dublin (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...of social housing, other aspects of the system have become congested and lopsided. There is the ongoing dispute about the cost of private builds. Three major players on the industry side, NAMA, which will be annoyed with me for calling it on the industry side but it reflects the thinking in it, the Construction Industry Federation and the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland talk...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...ruling and is the decision on whether Irish Water is off-balance sheet relevant in the context of public housing? This is an important issue. On the use of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, as a vehicle for public housing provision, would the housing stock be owned by the agency or another entity such as an approved housing body? Has Social Justice Ireland examined the issue...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Daly said earlier that repaying the debt was NAMA's top priority. I do not need to remind him that is not what the NAMA Act says. The Act gives NAMA a number of tasks. Section 2(b)(viii) of the Act talks about contributing "to the social and economic development of the State". Mr. Daly went on to say that in his view, repaying the debt is the best social dividend. I would have thought...