Results 21-40 of 260 for nama speaker:Joan Burton
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: My understanding is that NAMA is working very hard on the matter and has already delivered more than 1,500 apartments and houses, which have been used to house families.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: ...arise in certain local authorities in terms of whether certain accommodation is acceptable to them. I am not familiar with the detail of the development which the Deputy identified, but it is NAMA's objective, in particular where there are houses and apartments in urban areas where the level of demand is high but it is a bit more difficult in more remote rural areas. In urban areas where...
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: NAMA already allows for the transfer of property.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: ...sleeve as I was walking along saying, "Joan, would you like to come to breakfast, dinner or tea and could you have a look at a bit of land that I have a proposition on". When we had the debate on NAMA, we wanted to take that out of the picture.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I have no difficulty, nor has the Government, with NAMA going to any institution in the North of Ireland. We do not dictate to NAMA----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: Their party caused the bank crash. That was bad enough. It established NAMA. I was a critic of it and am still-----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputies should hold on and listen. As far as I am concerned it is a decision for NAMA if it chooses to go to the North. I would be perfectly happy----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I have no problem with NAMA going North but I want the NAMA board and executives to reach a business decision.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: NAMA is currently before the public accounts committee chaired very ably by one of the Deputy's colleagues.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: All of these issues are now being debated there. I do not have a difficulty as Tánaiste, nor am I aware that anyone else in Government has a difficulty with NAMA making a decision to go before the committee in the North. It is a decision for it to reach.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: This is the other side of the NAMA story.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: ...that the Deputy's colleague, Deputy John McGuinness, is leading an all-party Committee of Public Accounts inquiry committee in regard to the position and that both Brendan McDonagh, CEO of NAMA, and Chairman Frank Daly, have been speaking very frankly for an extended period to the members of the committee. Those members are acting on behalf of the Oireachtas in pursuit of appropriate,...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Without labouring the point, this House decided, in establishing the NAMA legislation, to have the strictest barriers between politicians' contact with NAMA, including office holders. The rules were stricter than those in place in any previous legislation of which I am aware. The record will show that I did not particularly care for the NAMA model, which was brought forward by Fianna...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Alternatively, the appropriate committee that deals with NAMA in this House is a cross-party committee, including members of Sinn Féin, chaired by the Opposition, properly, and including Independent Members.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and his opinions on the matter, then perhaps he should look to speak to the Committee of Public Accounts, either in private or in public. It is the committee that deals with NAMA. As Deputy Wallace is aware, NAMA was set up under fairly extraordinary legislation following a series of through-the-night meetings in this Chamber when it was established by the late Brian Lenihan, the...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----when we had a very deep crash and NAMA was responsible for getting the market going again-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: NAMA paid no moneys and-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: ...loan sale against whom allegations of wrongdoing now are being made. The loan portfolio was sold after an open process to the highest bidder for what it was worth. As I stated, attempting to put NAMA into what is a highly complicated Northern tale is not necessarily, I suggest to Deputy Adams, giving the full picture. NAMA did not appear before the Northern Ireland Committee for Finance...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: What NAMA has done is to appear before committees of this House and answer questions. All the questions and briefings are available both on the website of this House and, I understand, on the NAMA website. The Northern Ireland committee submitted a list of questions to NAMA regarding the sales process. NAMA responded to that on 4 September with detailed responses to the questions, running...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: In terms of this House and under the Constitution, the Comptroller and Auditor General has a specific role, including in regard to the oversight of NAMA. There have been three special reports on NAMA's activities by the Comptroller and Auditor General and they have been broadly positive in their assessment of how NAMA is managing what is a very complex business. I regret that NAMA ever had...