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Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (11 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and acreage of NAMA-owned properties and landbanks by property type (details supplied) and by county, in tabular form. [37576/17]

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...me of the X case, all of more than 25 years ago. Let us put an end to that. The only way we can do that is by giving people a say in how this democracy is run. It will not be done by throwing open the entire project to privatisation and the free market or giving away all the rights to NAMA to do what it wants with empty properties or to throwing homeless people into hubs and not homes....

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...benefiting from the low corporation tax and refusing to pay it, the bankers and the developers who brought this country into a crisis and the people who are at the receiving end of the scandals around NAMA at the moment, who are profiting hugely from this. I regard everyone who lives in this country as my own. We would be able to look after them all if we were to justly and correctly...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...be gone, as is the bar, and the corruption of our political process may not be so crass or obvious, but it may have morphed into a more subtle and sophisticated form. Now there seems to be no problem with, for example, officials who worked in NAMA one week transferring to a private equity firm or real estate investment trust, REIT, the next. There appears to be no problem with the...

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

Bríd Smith: ...to, which is 2011 levels. This is what is needed in the city to deal with the housing crisis, as well as what is actually happening in the city, whereby ordinary decent citizens are taking over NAMA buildings as we speak, hence the T-shirt I am wearing which states "home sweet home". Happy Christmas everybody, and fair play to the people who are taking direct action and doing something...

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

Bríd Smith: ...to lessen the planning regulations and take a softly-softly approach to this country's developers and builders, the Government had approximately 60 meetings with vulture funds regarding the sale of NAMA properties. It is no secret that the Government is strongly lobbied by developers. I suggest it needs to be strongly lobbied by the hundreds of thousands of people who lobbied the...

Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Lending (24 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...under Part V. We spend billions funding landlords to house people in private property through rent supplement, the housing assistance payment and the rental accommodation scheme and instruct NAMA to sell apartments and houses at knock-down prices to corporate landlords and vulture funds. As each of these measures fails, the crisis worsens and the number of children and families that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (22 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...Washington next March? Donald Trump has filled his Cabinet and surrounded himself with the chief executive officers of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Cerberus which is at the heart of a scandal with NAMA in this country. This is not a man who is a friend of working people. Instead, he represents the 1% who are creating gross inequalities, both in America and across the planet, as well as...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...of the Judiciary versus the will of the people. It will be the will of the people that will force this House to make a decision and stop kicking it down the road the way it did with water charges, the NAMA legislation and any other challenging issue that came before the Government. It kicked it down the road and hoped it did not come back. It is not going to do that with women and...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...touched by previous Governments. Need I mention the Apple tax of €13 billion, which may not all come back to the Irish State but a chunk of which certainly is due to us? There is €9 billion in NAMA which we are told we cannot spend because we would be breaking European fiscal rules. We are continuing to pay €6.3 billion on the interest of the debt to Europe, much of...

Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (29 Sep 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...ochas leis an gCeann Comhairle agus leis na Teachtaí a rinne na hathruithe chun an t-ábhar seo a phlé níos luaithe. I have been watching the broadcast of the Committee of Public Accounts meeting on NAMA. It is unfortunate that the Minister for Housing, Planning, Environment and Local Government is not present. While I was thinking of what to say to him, the figure of...

Housing Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...and Local Government, the Department Public Expenditure and Reform, the Department of Finance and the Housing Finance Agency to progress specific off-balance sheet mechanisms: expansion of the NAMA special purpose vehicle, a large-scale public-private partnership and a new financial vehicle. If it sounds familiar, it should, as it was put before the Dáil by the last Government by a...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: It is not simply water charges that Deputy Cowen and Fianna Fáil have kicked to touch. They have kicked to touch on bins, education equality and an investigation into NAMA. They have done nothing on housing and they intend to do no more than those in government are doing. They have similar policies to Fine Gael and they are absolutely and utterly similar on water charges. Those of...

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

Bríd Smith: It is ironic that these recommendations are coming to us in the same week or month as the unfolding scandal of NAMA’s sale of assets in Northern Ireland while a very sensible resolution by Deputy Mick Wallace was rejected by the main parties in this House, both Government and so-called Opposition. In the same month, a very simple Bill that we put, seeking to amend the remit of NAMA,...

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

Bríd Smith: ...the same developers to have sufficient profit so they will actually bother to build houses. It means we will provide major subsidies to developers and their need for profit. The chief executive officer of NAMA, Mr. Brendan McDonagh, has indicated that many developers are not satisfied with a €20,000 profit on a €300,000 house as they would rather wait until the prices rise...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (7 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...homelessness and lead to definite action instead of consistent promises and the failure to deliver and deal with what is an ever-increasing problem? We brought forward an item of legislation on NAMA to give it a new remit in terms of prioritising the building of social housing and providing both social and affordable housing and to use empty properties for social reasons rather than...

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...Fianna Fáil. I cannot get over the suspenders that make up Fianna Fáil. I made a list of the things they have suspended in the last couple of weeks: water, bins, repeal the eight amendment, the NAMA investigation, education equality and now banded hours. I am probably leaving a couple out and there is probably more to come. The attempt by Fianna Fáil to suspend this for...

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (29 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...as well as the campaign to repeal the eighth amendment, with its proposed committee. It is acting in the same way with the Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill. The Fianna Fáil amendment on the NAMA issue is all about suspension, putting it back and not dealing with it. It is outrageous. I will make a wider argument about why this is not simply about Project Eagle but the...

EU Migration and Refugee Crisis: Statements (28 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...and wish to be educated in this country they must pay EU education rates, which means it would cost approximately €18,000 to study for a degree. Let us start examining our role. Let us stop selling off NAMA properties, grab the housing that we can, look after the homeless and those who need homes here, as well as the refugees whom we can and are well able to take in and deal...

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Bríd Smith: I echo what has been said by Deputy Coppinger. What has happened in Tyrrelstown and Cork is a predictable outcome of the activities of NAMA and, I would argue, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan. The Government set out deliberately to attract corporate investment funds with tax incentives. The Sunday before the general election, The Sunday Business Postreported this was coming...