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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)
Victor Boyhan: ...of the issues that arises concerning the LDA when one sees media commentary and letters to various newspaper editors. I do not suggest it is correct, but some people make an analogy between it and NAMA or say they are similar. That is not the case, but the reality is that many see it that way. People will have a greater understanding as the pre-legislative scrutiny ends, the report is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)
Eoin Ó Broin: ...being delayed because the land cannot be transferred until the LDA is set up on a statutory footing. I welcome Ms Graham's comment to the effect that there will be a structured engagement. That is important because, as we know from NAMA, these are tricky and complex areas of EU law. Will she indicate when that will happen? Why did some level of engagement not happen in the context of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)
Victor Boyhan: I acknowledge the work of the Oireachtas Library and Research Service on the briefing document. With Mr. Coleman's previous experience with NAMA, what was the experience there on the freedom of information, FOI, thing? There are some similarities between NAMA and the LDA. Clearly, FOI will be a big issue. Mr. Coleman got a taste of it this morning. We talked earlier about probity,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)
Mr. John Coleman: It is a really good question. One way to think about that is to consider the different context that applied in NAMA as opposed to the LDA. NAMA was of a time. The nature of its work was highly controversial. There were many people tied up in NAMA who did not want it to succeed in its objectives, which may have been against their interests. It is a different beast from...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)
Noel Rock: ..., there is great value of having it live within the realm of FOI. From what I can hear, there is no great rationale for it living outside that realm. Mr. Coleman has experience of working in NAMA and in an organisation that is outside FOI. He correctly compared and contrasted the different natures of the two organisations. Does he believe the core functions of the LDA would be able to...