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Nama to claw back €500million in assets

Frank Daly
Frank Daly
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NAMA EXPECTS TO recover €500million in assets that debtors attempted to put beyond its reach, according to the institution’s chairman Frank Daly.

He said the agency had already secured charges over some of the assets, which were investments which debtors had moved or given to relatives in an attempt to keep them.

Their recovery is an important step in winning the public’s confidence in the Nama project, Daly said. He told Newstalk radio:

It’s an achievement. It’s important in terms of reassuring taxpayers that we went after tese assets, after these transferred funds, and we got them back.

Daly also said that a new ‘product’ to help home buyers guard against negative equity would be rolled out by Nama within the next two months.

The “deferred consideration initiative” would provide a “buffer” for buyers, whereby the value of their home would be reassessed after five years, he said.

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  • Bert McCann 10/02/12 #
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    It is an insignificant drop in a vast ocean of fraud.

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    • Declan Carroll 10/02/12 #
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      Yes it is but it is an important step in the right direction. No doubt there are millions upon millions out there still to be recovered. We’ll have to wait & see.

  • Keith Twamley 10/02/12 #
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    Any chance we can see people who carried out such activities being arrested and imprisoned?

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    • Dermot Purcell 10/02/12 #
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      No investigations taking place in this country i into what truly happened in our banking sector only cover ups the scale of which is frightening

    • Declan Carroll 10/02/12 #
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      Which in itself is quite revealing, Dermot. All seem to be covering for each other. Each afraid that if they don’t, one may spill the beans. That’s what I feel is going on. “A great little country” as CJH once said.

    • Neil Kettles 10/02/12 #
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      Are you completely mad Keith? Prisons are for poor people that forget to buy a Dog licence and stuff!

  • HELLO SPRUIKER 10/02/12 #
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    ”Their recovery is an important step in winning the public’s confidence in the Nama project”

    ”It’s an achievement. It’s important in terms of reassuring taxpayers that we went after these assets, after these transferred funds, and we got them back”.

    So Frank.What you are saying here is, that you are only doing this as a bit of a publicity stunt to try to win our confidence?

    I can assure you Frank, that nobody will ever have any confidence in you or in NAMA.

    What have you done in the last 2 years?

    If you really want to save the taxpayer money….
    Shut NAMA down today and stop paying yourself and your accountant and solicitors cronies billions of our money.

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  • Peter 66 10/02/12 #
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    These guys are clowns.

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    • cavanbythesea 10/02/12 #
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      Would you rather they didn’t try to get the money?

    • HELLO SPRUIKER 10/02/12 #
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      Yes cavanbythesea.
      As it would probably be more effective and cost us less in fees.

    • Killian Maher 10/02/12 #
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      @Hello Spruker, the recovery today actually covers all of the running costs of NAMA as an agency from inception to wind down, and it is unlikely to have been recovered without NAMA or some equivalent agency being in place… so it is incorrect to suggest finding this 500 million will some how be a net loss. This is a good news story, difficult to say otherwise.

    • HELLO SPRUIKER 10/02/12 #
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      Thanks Killian,

      You might let us know when NAMA is closing down then as I want to let my unborn grandchildren know the date?

    • HELLO SPRUIKER 10/02/12 #
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      And tell your great great great grand children to let my great great great grandchildren know when NAMA actually collects this €500 Million just in case we are not around when it happens.

  • Ciaro 10/02/12 #
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    Dud you hear daly on rte this morning? It seems to me that the role of nama has become a monster and is not what it set out to be.
    It’s a disaster.

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  • Sean Higgins 10/02/12 #
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    I know every says NAMA is a bad idea but it looks good to me, it has returns a profit every year and still holds assets worth billions of euro………

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  • HELLO SPRUIKER 10/02/12 #
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    If these properties were sold of when they were worth something we would have had a better return.

    This would have also eliminated the 10 year (or maybe open ended?) ”jobs for the boys” NAMA gravy train.

    When NAMA is shut down (if it is ever shut down) it will have only ever made enough money to pay its own salaries,fees,advisers fees, expenses etc,etc,etc, (if it even manages to achieve that).

    Just look at all the rates,household charges,2nd property taxes, etc they are missing out on these comatosed rotting properties alone.

    Governments have never run property efficiently.

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  • Chris Mcdonnell 10/02/12 #
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    1. You can’t sell property in this country and expect to get any reasonable price for it.
    2. If you sold it anyway the value of every other property in the country would drop even further sending more and more families into even worse negative equity.
    NAMA while not the greastest idea ever is the one chosen and we have swam half way across the ocean there’s not much point in turning back.

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  • HELLO SPRUIKER 10/02/12 #
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    1. You can’t sell it now alright and especially not after NAMA and co has F@@ked with the market, but maybe 4 long years ago when all this crap started.
    2. Concerned about negative equity on your home?
    Well maybe it just wasn’t worth that much in the first place and maybe you were a victim of your bank and their dodgy valuers who inflated its price to suit their loan targets? (but they’d never do that would they?)

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