Results 101-104 of 104 for nama speaker:Richard Bruton

Finance Bill 2009: Second Stage (12 May 2009)

Richard Bruton: ...opportunity is missed, it is very difficult to recreate the intensity required for major change. That opportunity was missed in the budget. I return to the main element of the budget, that is, the NAMA measure. I am concerned that it is a time bomb. It is important to put some questions on the matter and the easiest are the simple ones. Will it get credit going? Is this the least...

Finance Bill 2009: Second Stage (12 May 2009)

Richard Bruton: ...matter seriously. We appear to be rushing headlong down the road without seeing anything. The proposal also plunges the State into letting professional investors off the hook. If we go down the NAMA route, shareholders will burn because of the haircut but professional investors will not. We are moving to a situation where we are effectively underpinning professional investors. I...

Order of Business (30 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: I should like to inquire about the national assets management agency, NAMA. We are now seven months on from the introduction of a guarantee and the same boards are in all the banks and the Central Bank. We have the same boards in the Financial Regulator and effectively in the Department of Finance and in the Government. They have hatched this proposal where the taxpayer's neck is being put...

Cabinet Committees. (22 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: Are the newspaper reports accurate, namely, that the legislation to underpin the NAMA will not be presented to the House until autumn? Against this backdrop and if the Taoiseach is discussing establishing an interim board, will it have the authority to commit taxpayers' money without the Dáil having any say in the framework within which it will operate? The figures are of a stunning...