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  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-04-28/29/
    28 Apr 2021 - I know it is caught between vulture funds and the owner in the courts but it should not be allowed to...There should be fair distribution of funding....They should be allowed some of this funding....It is time we dealt with the matter as the funding is not fairly distributed.
  • Debate: Joint Committee On Finance, Public Expenditure And Reform, And Taoiseach

    Business and Banking: Discussion.

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_finance_public_expenditure_and_reform_and_taoiseach/2017-01-26/2/
    26 Jan 2017 - the former Secretary General of the Department of Finance, John Moran, was thrilled to welcome in the vulture...funds, as outlined in the excellent RTE documentary, "The Great Irish Sell Off"....Those vulture funds have picked up over €200 billion worth of loans, secured against underlying assets...In terms of what follows next, the vulture funds call in the loans seeking to take charge of the asset...Meanwhile, SME type builders who want to get back to work are being crippled with funding costs of up
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Financial Resolution: Stamp Duties

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-05-19/28/
    19 May 2021 - Stop the vulture funds. Help your people....Funds will continue to bulk buy family homes.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Financial Resolution: Stamp Duties

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-05-19/26/
    19 May 2021 - Stop the vulture funds. Help your people....Funds will continue to bulk-buy family homes.
  • Parliamentary Question

    70. Deputy Joanna Tuffy asked the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce regulations to prevent vulture fund activity here; if he will be seeking capital gains tax or any other revenue from these unregulated operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36338/14]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2014-09-25/70/#pq_70
    Thu, 25 Sep 2014 - Deputy Joanna Tuffy asked the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce regulations to prevent vulture...fund activity here; if he will be seeking capital gains tax or any other revenue from these unregulated
  • Parliamentary Question

    608. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his future plans for a location (details supplied) which has been derelict for a long time after being purchased by a vulture fund from which no information is forthcoming. [28072/18]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2018-06-26/608/#pq_608
    Tue, 26 Jun 2018 - for a location (details supplied) which has been derelict for a long time after being purchased by a vulture...fund from which no information is forthcoming. [28072/18]
  • Parliamentary Question

    62. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Finance the number of National Asset Management Agency residential properties that international vulture funds have purchased each year since 2009; the location of each of these properties; and the number of residences in each property. [4918/16]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2016-03-22/62/#pq_62
    Tue, 22 Mar 2016 - for Finance the number of National Asset Management Agency residential properties that international vulture...funds have purchased each year since 2009; the location of each of these properties; and the number
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Financial Resolution No. 7 - General: Motion (Resumed)

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-10-15/22/
    15 Oct 2020 - Instead, it put developers, vulture funds, landlords and big businesses before our older people, carers
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-04-28/28/
    28 Apr 2021 - They have been given over to the vulture funds and to the developers who care little for the character
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-04-28/29/
    28 Apr 2021 - They have been given over to the vulture funds and to the developers who care little for the character
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-12-15/33/
    15 Dec 2020 - change when we have a Government that puts the right to a home before the interests of speculators, vulture...funds and landlords.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed)

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-11-05/18/
    5 Nov 2020 - It is protecting banks, vulture funds and large corporations but there is no protection for student nurses
  • Debate: Seanad Éireann

    Private Rental Sector: Motion

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-03-08/15/
    8 Mar 2021 - Vulture funds are paying limited tax but a person with one or two apartments or a small developer with
  • Publication

    Connaught Telegraph, week ending 9 December 2017

    https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/communications/media/localMediaReports/2017/2017-12-09_connaught-telegraph-week-ending-9-december-2017_en.pdf
    9 Dec 2017 -
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed)

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-06-09/17/
    9 Jun 2016 - Ireland will contribute €1.8 billion and the total fund will be €55 billion when completed....This State, which relatively speaking is a small one, coughed up €64 billion alone in bailout funding...Funding this therefore sets an extremely dangerous precedent....Is this fund really going to stop the same thing from happening again for the same reasons?...Alongside this, one can see the growth of shadow banking with vulture funds, a sector that thrives outside
  • Publication

    Submission, Irish Farmers Association (IFA)

    https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/dail/32/joint_committee_on_finance_public_expenditure_and_reform_and_taoiseach/submissions/2018/2018-07-03_submission-irish-farmers-association-ifa_en.pdf
    3 Jul 2018 -
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    European Council Meeting: Statements

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-03-05/6/
    5 Mar 2020 - Agricultural Policy, CAP, and had made clear that those policies needed to continue to be properly funded...position, leaving farmers and the agricultural community here with deep concern regarding what cuts to CAP funding...heavily dependent on EU subsidies, with 56% of average family income coming from direct payments from CAP funds...Farmers are leaving the land and their farms are being gobbled up by vulture funds and conglomerates.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Planning and Development (Amendment) (First-Time Buyers) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-11-27/33/
    27 Nov 2019 - Long-term, low-yield investors, such as pension funds or the credit unions, could play a valuable role...Short-term, high-yield funds availing of incredibly generous tax breaks are driving up prices and pushing...If structured in certain ways, these funds can avoid tax on their rent roll and on capital gains when...It is therefore a little bit rich of Deputy Darragh O’Brien to complain about the impact these funds...If Fianna Fáil was really serious about ending the distorting role of vulture funds in our housing system
  • Publication

    Opening Statement Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation

    https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/dail/32/committee_on_housing_and_homelessness/submissions/2016/2016-05-12_opening-statement-irish-mortgage-holders-organisation_en.pdf
    12 May 2016 -
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed)

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-11-22/29/
    22 Nov 2017 - It is certainly the case in my county anyway, with the home-grown vulture fund which the Minister refuses...There is the equine industry fund and the money from Japan and China, but the local man has to borrow...Deputy Fitzmaurice and I had an amendment which would have meant that vulture funds who buy land would
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-07-06/29/
    6 Jul 2016 - The Minister could have told them to look at the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and consider it as...Fund because it has the capacity to invest in commercial entities....It is very possible that the State will provide money through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund to...The Minister will fill the gap in funding and the project will reside in the hands of a multinational...The vulture funds that played fast and loose with the asset that is now Eir's asset in order to make
  • Publication

    Opening statement, Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation IMHO

    https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/dail/32/joint_committee_on_justice_and_equality/submissions/2017/2017-10-25_opening-statement-irish-mortgage-holders-organisation-imho_en.pdf
    25 Oct 2017 -
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed)

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-01-24/26/
    24 Jan 2018 - When one looks at bigger operators, including the likes of the vulture funds which came into the country...Some of these companies, in particular the vulture funds, are out of control, but nothing is being done...Vulture funds are in this country doing that to our own....try to put a person through the humiliation of telling an auctioneer to keep things going until the fund...SMEs might have a loan of €200,000 or €300,000, which was bought at 30% or 40%, and these so-called vultures
  • Parliamentary Question

    35. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if legislation will be introduced to protect residents at a location (details supplied) who face eviction by a vulture fund and other tenants that find themselves in similar situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26807/18]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2018-06-20/35/#pq_35
    Wed, 20 Jun 2018 - legislation will be introduced to protect residents at a location (details supplied) who face eviction by a vulture...fund and other tenants that find themselves in similar situations; and if he will make a statement on
  • Parliamentary Question

    166. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if customers of a bank (details supplied) can be assured that their debts to the bank, mortgage or otherwise, will not be sold to vulture funds or third parties prior to any sale of a State stake in the bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5384/17]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2017-02-07/166/#pq_166
    Tue, 7 Feb 2017 - details supplied) can be assured that their debts to the bank, mortgage or otherwise, will not be sold to vulture...funds or third parties prior to any sale of a State stake in the bank; and if he will make a statement
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages [Private Members]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-11-22/67/
    22 Nov 2018 - Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach and have explained their frustration at trying to deal with these vulture...funds on behalf of farmers to try to get restructuring agreements over the line....On the issue of whom the contact is going to be with, it is worth pointing out that the benefit to a fund...That committee went to great lengths to get these funds before the committee to answer straightforward
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages [Private Members]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-11-22/65/
    22 Nov 2018 - Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach and have explained their frustration at trying to deal with these vulture...funds on behalf of farmers to try to get restructuring agreements over the line....On the issue of whom the contact is going to be with, it is worth pointing out that the benefit to a fund...That committee went to great lengths to get these funds before the committee to answer straightforward
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-09-19/19/
    19 Sep 2018 - northern cross route project; (5) Deputies Eoin Ó Broin, John Curran and Gino Kenny - the need to provide funding...stretch in Lanesboro and Ballyleague; (14) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss the sale by Permanent TSB to vulture...funds of distressed mortgages; (15) Deputy Frank O'Rourke - to discuss with the Minister for Housing...) Deputy Bobby Aylward - the need for the Minister for Education and Skills to secure the necessary funding
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2015: First Stage

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-06-09/23/
    9 Jun 2015 - The margin earned by banks on variable rate loans in Ireland has grown dramatically as their cost of funds...lender not to charge a rate which exceeds a specified maximum rate, a margin above that lender's cost of funds...distinct advantage of protecting customers of smaller lenders and those families whose loans are sold to vulture...funds.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Building on Recovery: Statements

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-10-07/27/
    7 Oct 2015 - That could have resulted in funding of between 30% and 40% from the European Union, basically free, for...It is welcome that funding of €450 million for nursing homes and the disabled was announced, but the...borrowed from groups such as the credit unions will be spent in our country, rather than going to a vulture...fund or speculator living in another country trying to make money on the backs of the Irish people.
  • Debate: Seanad Éireann

    Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2015-06-24/11/
    24 Jun 2015 - It would be useful to have clarity on how the so-called vulture funds will be regulated in respect of...If people knew they could access part of their pension funds for the rainy day, it would encourage them...This has been done successfully in Britain and the ability to access pension funds may have been vital
  • Publication

    Opening Statement, Austin Byrne, RIGHT2HOMES

    https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/dail/32/joint_committee_on_finance_public_expenditure_and_reform_and_taoiseach/submissions/2017/2017-06-20_opening-statement-austin-byrne-right2homes_en.pdf
    20 Jun 2017 -
  • Parliamentary Question

    41. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance his views on recent reports (details supplied) of so-called vulture funds being able to pay a small amount of tax; the measures he will take to close tax loopholes; if he will consider an increase in tax or new taxes on these funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1747/17]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2017-01-17/41/#pq_41
    Tue, 17 Jan 2017 - Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance his views on recent reports (details supplied) of so-called vulture...funds being able to pay a small amount of tax; the measures he will take to close tax loopholes; if...he will consider an increase in tax or new taxes on these funds; and if he will make a statement on the
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed)

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-03-25/6/
    25 Mar 2021 - The first is the REIT property hedge fund or vulture fund that has access to pools of investment capital...all of which are contributing to the spiralling cost of home ownership, whether council or privately funded
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-05-16/46/
    16 May 2018 - to people struggling to purchase a home for themselves, every house in the estate has been sold to a vulture...fund.
  • Debate: Seanad Éireann

    Order of Business

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-09-20/6/
    20 Sep 2018 - It is not down to an issue of cost because if we can give charitable status to foreign vulture funds,
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-03-27/18/
    27 Mar 2019 - lists, Leilani Farha, issued a damning condemnation of the Government's record on housing for allowing vulture...funds to buy up large numbers of properties across the State, only to let them at scandalous prices.
  • Debate: Seanad Éireann

    Order of Business

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2017-12-05/2/
    5 Dec 2017 - Vulture funds and banks cannot be relied upon to look after the most vulnerable in society because their
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-14/2/
    14 May 2019 - Vulture funds would buy the network, just like they bought Eircom, and milk it for its assets and cash
  • Debate: Seanad Éireann

    Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2014-12-19/17/
    19 Dec 2014 - Ministers who have spoken to us that this is not their intention but it is the intention of the hedge funds...that are hovering like vultures to take over our water services.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Leaders' Questions

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-11-17/2/
    17 Nov 2016 - NAMA has undersold a massive slice of this country to US vulture funds for a fraction of its value.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Housing Issues: Statements

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-04-14/14/
    14 Apr 2016 - We want compulsory purchases of housing stock which has been gifted by NAMA to vulture funds.
  • Debate: Seanad Éireann

    Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Statements

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2017-05-31/20/
    31 May 2017 - of concern for customers such as standard variable rates and the purchase of distressed mortgages by vulture...funds.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Topical Issue Matters

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-02-20/17/
    20 Feb 2018 - County Laois; (19) Deputies Mick Wallace and Paul Murphy - the sale of loans from Permanent TSB to vulture...funds; and (20) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - whether Trim Educate Together school will be expanded.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-03-29/24/
    29 Mar 2017 - Imagine if we knew that the approach had come from two of the vulture funds acting on their behalf, information
  • Debate: Select Committee On Jobs, Enterprise And Innovation

    Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_jobs_enterprise_and_innovation/2017-03-09/2/
    9 Mar 2017 - It was not transparent enough to allow people to know that the vulture funds which had many property
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

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

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-12-15/50/
    15 Dec 2016 - This was done by the vulture fund in Tyrrelstown.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

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

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-12-15/50/
    15 Dec 2016 - approach to this country's developers and builders, the Government had approximately 60 meetings with vulture...funds regarding the sale of NAMA properties.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-05-17/29/
    17 May 2017 - There are extremely aggressive policies from the insurer, backed by a US vulture fund investor that has
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Leaders' Questions

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-01-19/16/
    19 Jan 2016 - NAMA sold a massive number of properties to vulture funds but there is nothing for social housing in
  • Debate: Committee On Housing And Homelessness

    Business of Committee

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/committee_on_housing_and_homelessness/2016-04-20/6/
    20 Apr 2016 - The area of rent allowance, the whole mortgage distress area, vulture funds and mortgage interest rates
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-04-06/52/
    6 Apr 2017 - It is absolutely scandalous that a vulture fund could have six years to take an action.
  • Debate: Seanad Éireann

    Order of Business

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-02-21/8/
    21 Feb 2018 - Permanent TSB announced yesterday evening that 14,000 home loans were going up for sale, potentially to a vulture...fund, or to somebody else.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Financial Services Regulation

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-05-18/7/
    18 May 2016 - mortgage holders and tenants and SMEs whose loans have been transferred to non-regulated entities, vulture...funds".
  • Debate: Joint Committee On Finance, Public Expenditure And Reform, And Taoiseach

    No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed)

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_finance_public_expenditure_and_reform_and_taoiseach/2019-07-09/3/
    9 Jul 2019 - I am sure we could ask that an independent analysis be carried out in respect of the effect vulture funds
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    National Economic and Social Council

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-07-04/26/
    4 Jul 2018 - Whether they are owned by the Deputy, me or a vulture fund should not really matter.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    NAMA Portfolio

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-02-20/34/
    20 Feb 2018 - Developments, which is also responsible for seeking to evict tenants from its land having sold the houses to a vulture...fund, to allow them to use them.
  • Debate: Seanad Éireann

    Statement by the Taoiseach

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-04-18/2/
    18 Apr 2019 - investment loopholes which are distorting and toxifying the housing market rather than exporting our vulture...fund model to Europe as is currently proposed.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-05-16/50/
    16 May 2018 - to people struggling to purchase a home for themselves, every house in the estate has been sold to a vulture...fund.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-03-28/17/
    28 Mar 2019 - It might be working for landlords, the vulture funds and property speculators, but it is certainly not
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-12-16/23/
    16 Dec 2020 - Tenancies Board, RTB, with tenants who are facing their fourth eviction attempt at the hands of ruthless vulture...funds....Another example of the same thing happened in Rathmines this week where the same vulture funds were on
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Private Security Services (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-05-06/10/
    6 May 2021 - property seized and have been in conflict with various banks and lending institutions, including the vulture...funds that came in here, bought up loans and rode roughshod over them....I am not avoiding that issue but clearly some companies, including so-called vulture funds, swoop on
  • Parliamentary Question

    126. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Finance the discussions taking place with partially State-owned banks regarding the sale of non-performing loans to vulture funds; the criteria being used to decide on the make up of the portfolios; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36133/18]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2018-09-07/126/#pq_126
    Fri, 7 Sep 2018 - discussions taking place with partially State-owned banks regarding the sale of non-performing loans to vulture...funds; the criteria being used to decide on the make up of the portfolios; and if he will make a statement
  • Parliamentary Question

    14. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [23895/21]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-05-19/14/#pq_14
    Wed, 19 May 2021 - The State, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, invests in the investment funds....What a concession the Taoiseach has made to the vulture funds by excluding apartments entirely from the...an apartment as a home for themselves and their family, not being squeezed out of the market by the vultures...Why does the Taoiseach let the vultures off the hook so completely by excluding the apartment sector...I put it to the Taoiseach that he is giving the vultures a huge let-off.
  • Parliamentary Question

    15. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [24643/21]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-05-19/15/#pq_15
    Wed, 19 May 2021 - The State, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, invests in the investment funds....What a concession the Taoiseach has made to the vulture funds by excluding apartments entirely from the...an apartment as a home for themselves and their family, not being squeezed out of the market by the vultures...Why does the Taoiseach let the vultures off the hook so completely by excluding the apartment sector...I put it to the Taoiseach that he is giving the vultures a huge let-off.
  • Parliamentary Question

    16. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic development unit of his Department. [25543/21]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-05-19/16/#pq_16
    Wed, 19 May 2021 - The State, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, invests in the investment funds....What a concession the Taoiseach has made to the vulture funds by excluding apartments entirely from the...an apartment as a home for themselves and their family, not being squeezed out of the market by the vultures...Why does the Taoiseach let the vultures off the hook so completely by excluding the apartment sector...I put it to the Taoiseach that he is giving the vultures a huge let-off.
  • Parliamentary Question

    17. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [26241/21]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-05-19/17/#pq_17
    Wed, 19 May 2021 - The State, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, invests in the investment funds....What a concession the Taoiseach has made to the vulture funds by excluding apartments entirely from the...an apartment as a home for themselves and their family, not being squeezed out of the market by the vultures...Why does the Taoiseach let the vultures off the hook so completely by excluding the apartment sector...I put it to the Taoiseach that he is giving the vultures a huge let-off.
  • Parliamentary Question

    18. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [26242/21]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-05-19/18/#pq_18
    Wed, 19 May 2021 - The State, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, invests in the investment funds....What a concession the Taoiseach has made to the vulture funds by excluding apartments entirely from the...an apartment as a home for themselves and their family, not being squeezed out of the market by the vultures...Why does the Taoiseach let the vultures off the hook so completely by excluding the apartment sector...I put it to the Taoiseach that he is giving the vultures a huge let-off.
  • Parliamentary Question

    19. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [26244/21]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-05-19/19/#pq_19
    Wed, 19 May 2021 - The State, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, invests in the investment funds....What a concession the Taoiseach has made to the vulture funds by excluding apartments entirely from the...an apartment as a home for themselves and their family, not being squeezed out of the market by the vultures...Why does the Taoiseach let the vultures off the hook so completely by excluding the apartment sector...I put it to the Taoiseach that he is giving the vultures a huge let-off.
  • Parliamentary Question

    20. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [26245/21]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-05-19/20/#pq_20
    Wed, 19 May 2021 - The State, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, invests in the investment funds....What a concession the Taoiseach has made to the vulture funds by excluding apartments entirely from the...an apartment as a home for themselves and their family, not being squeezed out of the market by the vultures...Why does the Taoiseach let the vultures off the hook so completely by excluding the apartment sector...I put it to the Taoiseach that he is giving the vultures a huge let-off.
  • Parliamentary Question

    21. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [26248/21]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-05-19/21/#pq_21
    Wed, 19 May 2021 - The State, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, invests in the investment funds....What a concession the Taoiseach has made to the vulture funds by excluding apartments entirely from the...an apartment as a home for themselves and their family, not being squeezed out of the market by the vultures...Why does the Taoiseach let the vultures off the hook so completely by excluding the apartment sector...I put it to the Taoiseach that he is giving the vultures a huge let-off.
  • Parliamentary Question

    22. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [26249/21]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-05-19/22/#pq_22
    Wed, 19 May 2021 - The State, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, invests in the investment funds....What a concession the Taoiseach has made to the vulture funds by excluding apartments entirely from the...an apartment as a home for themselves and their family, not being squeezed out of the market by the vultures...Why does the Taoiseach let the vultures off the hook so completely by excluding the apartment sector...I put it to the Taoiseach that he is giving the vultures a huge let-off.
  • Parliamentary Question

    23. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [26500/21]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-05-19/23/#pq_23
    Wed, 19 May 2021 - The State, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, invests in the investment funds....What a concession the Taoiseach has made to the vulture funds by excluding apartments entirely from the...an apartment as a home for themselves and their family, not being squeezed out of the market by the vultures...Why does the Taoiseach let the vultures off the hook so completely by excluding the apartment sector...I put it to the Taoiseach that he is giving the vultures a huge let-off.
  • Parliamentary Question

    24. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met and will next meet. [26501/21]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-05-19/24/#pq_24
    Wed, 19 May 2021 - The State, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, invests in the investment funds....What a concession the Taoiseach has made to the vulture funds by excluding apartments entirely from the...an apartment as a home for themselves and their family, not being squeezed out of the market by the vultures...Why does the Taoiseach let the vultures off the hook so completely by excluding the apartment sector...I put it to the Taoiseach that he is giving the vultures a huge let-off.
  • Parliamentary Question

    25. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [26515/21]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-05-19/25/#pq_25
    Wed, 19 May 2021 - The State, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, invests in the investment funds....What a concession the Taoiseach has made to the vulture funds by excluding apartments entirely from the...an apartment as a home for themselves and their family, not being squeezed out of the market by the vultures...Why does the Taoiseach let the vultures off the hook so completely by excluding the apartment sector...I put it to the Taoiseach that he is giving the vultures a huge let-off.
  • Parliamentary Question

    26. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [26520/21]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-05-19/26/#pq_26
    Wed, 19 May 2021 - The State, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, invests in the investment funds....What a concession the Taoiseach has made to the vulture funds by excluding apartments entirely from the...an apartment as a home for themselves and their family, not being squeezed out of the market by the vultures...Why does the Taoiseach let the vultures off the hook so completely by excluding the apartment sector...I put it to the Taoiseach that he is giving the vultures a huge let-off.
  • Parliamentary Question

    27. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [26689/21]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-05-19/27/#pq_27
    Wed, 19 May 2021 - The State, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, invests in the investment funds....What a concession the Taoiseach has made to the vulture funds by excluding apartments entirely from the...an apartment as a home for themselves and their family, not being squeezed out of the market by the vultures...Why does the Taoiseach let the vultures off the hook so completely by excluding the apartment sector...I put it to the Taoiseach that he is giving the vultures a huge let-off.
  • Publication

    Submission, Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC)

    https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/dail/32/joint_committee_on_finance_public_expenditure_and_reform_and_taoiseach/other/2018/2018-07-03_submission-free-legal-advice-centres-flac_en.pdf
    3 Jul 2018 -
  • Debate: Joint Committee On Transport

    Aer Lingus: Ministerial Presentation.

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_transport/2004-07-21/2/
    21 Jul 2004 - Does he not further accept that the same vultures were there when the privatisation of Telecom Éireann...The Department of Transport said: "Privatisation would allow the company to raise more funds for investment...appalled recently to hear a senior journalist on "Morning Ireland" say Aer Lingus is not allowed secure funding
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Agriculture: Statements

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-05-04/3/
    4 May 2016 - Deputy Fitzmaurice alluded to something about which I am concerned, namely, equity companies and vulture...funds buying large tracts of land in Ireland....European Investment Bank, EIB, funding is available and it should be provided at a very low interest
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Housing Issues: Statements

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-04-14/14/
    14 Apr 2016 - the Oireachtas committee I referred to, the NAMA chairman, Frank Daly, stressed the agency could not fund...We would say that compensation for the developers, vulture funds and the industry that have conspired
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Housing: Motion [Private Members]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-06-13/33/
    13 Jun 2018 - flogged €40 billion of property because of the mandate this Government gave to entities such as Cairn and vulture...funds like I-RES REIT....Why did the original 40% affordable housing condition on LIHAF funding get dropped within weeks?
  • Debate: Seanad Éireann

    Order of Business

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-06-28/8/
    28 Jun 2018 - increase capacity, recruit the necessary staff and increase resources for the National Treatment Purchase Fund...in cases involving the repossession of family farms and residential properties by banks and various vulture...funds.
  • Debate: Seanad Éireann

    Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-26/14/
    26 Nov 2019 - He is paying a tax rate of 52% and related charges on the income while a vulture fund that owns a commercial...We do not want to lose people with skills and we want to fund people so they can be warmer in their homes
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Social and Affordable Housing Provision

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-10-19/83/
    19 Oct 2017 - The truth is that we will not get units through a major developer who has been funded by NAMA on State...We are moving towards the private rental market but we have designed it in such a way with REITs and vulture...funds that rent is too expensive here.
  • Parliamentary Question

    54. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance when, as per the programme for Government, he will move to provide greater protection for mortgage holders, tenants and SMEs, whose loans have been transferred to non-regulated entities, that is, vulture funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17538/16]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2016-06-23/54/#pq_54
    Thu, 23 Jun 2016 - mortgage holders, tenants and SMEs, whose loans have been transferred to non-regulated entities, that is, vulture...funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17538/16]
  • Publication

    Submission Tyrrelstown Tenants Action Group

    https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/dail/32/committee_on_housing_and_homelessness/submissions/2016/2016-05-19_submission-tyrrelstown-tenants-action-group_en.pdf
    19 May 2016 -
  • Parliamentary Question

    55. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether significant mistakes have been made by the Government in relation to vulture funds in terms of the scale of acquisitions of property and property-related assets and in terms of the taxes forgone as a result of tax loopholes benefiting these funds; if he proposes any further policy or legislative action in relation to these funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1610/17]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2017-01-17/55/#pq_55
    Tue, 17 Jan 2017 - for Finance his views on whether significant mistakes have been made by the Government in relation to vulture...funds in terms of the scale of acquisitions of property and property-related assets and in terms of...the taxes forgone as a result of tax loopholes benefiting these funds; if he proposes any further policy...or legislative action in relation to these funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1610
  • Publication

    Opening statement, Cormac Butler

    https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/dail/32/joint_committee_on_finance_public_expenditure_and_reform_and_taoiseach/submissions/2019/2019-05-28_opening-statement-cormac-butler_en.pdf
    28 May 2019 -
  • Parliamentary Question

    5. Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Finance if he will devise a scheme to provide a solution to protect the home ownership of the 13,000 Irish Bank Resolution Corporation mortgage holders whose accounts are being offered for sale to venture capitalists; if he will prevent that sale. [8480/14]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2014-02-20/5/#pq_5
    Thu, 20 Feb 2014 - What if they believe that those companies, vulture funds, or whatever the Minister wants to call them...The owners of these funds can claim that they are voluntarily complying with the code of conduct, but...Who adjudicates when an issue arises if somebody gets into difficulty with their mortgage and the fund...Mortgage holders would then be left at the mercy of these vulture capitalists....People are afraid of being exposed, vulnerable and isolated in the face of an unsympathetic fund that
  • Parliamentary Question

    1. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Finance the action he will take to safeguard the interests of residential mortgage holders whose loans are sold to unregulated third parties, including the customers of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in special liquidation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8564/14]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2014-02-20/1/#pq_1
    Thu, 20 Feb 2014 - What if they believe that those companies, vulture funds, or whatever the Minister wants to call them...The owners of these funds can claim that they are voluntarily complying with the code of conduct, but...Who adjudicates when an issue arises if somebody gets into difficulty with their mortgage and the fund...Mortgage holders would then be left at the mercy of these vulture capitalists....People are afraid of being exposed, vulnerable and isolated in the face of an unsympathetic fund that
  • Parliamentary Question

    1550. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the provision made for older persons who are renting properties and whose tenancies are terminated following the transfer of the property to a vulture fund; and his plans to introduce safeguards for such persons such that they do not find themselves homeless in their retirement. [19096/19]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2019-05-08/1550/#pq_1550
    Wed, 8 May 2019 - are renting properties and whose tenancies are terminated following the transfer of the property to a vulture...fund; and his plans to introduce safeguards for such persons such that they do not find themselves homeless
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-05-18/14/
    18 May 2021 - A new strategy then emerged of encouraging REITs, so-called vulture and cuckoo funds....In addition, as revealed in the Business Post , State funds were invested in these companies.
  • Parliamentary Question

    194. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the reason he continues to allow banks, particularly those in which the Government has an ownership stake, to sell mortgage loans to vulture funds; his plans to implement policy changes to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13630/18]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2018-03-27/194/#pq_194
    Tue, 27 Mar 2018 - banks, particularly those in which the Government has an ownership stake, to sell mortgage loans to vulture...funds; his plans to implement policy changes to address this issue; and if he will make a statement
  • Parliamentary Question

    63. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Finance the number of National Asset Management Agency commercial units which international vulture funds have purchased in each year since 2009; the location of each of these properties and the number of units in each development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4919/16]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2016-03-22/63/#pq_63
    Tue, 22 Mar 2016 - Minister for Finance the number of National Asset Management Agency commercial units which international vulture...funds have purchased in each year since 2009; the location of each of these properties and the number
  • Parliamentary Question

    183. Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for Finance the measures being taken to ensure that persons who are fully compliant with their mortgage payments to a bank (details supplied) where their mortgages have now been sold to vulture funds are not unfairly evicted from their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54145/18]

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2019-01-15/183/#pq_183
    Tue, 15 Jan 2019 - with their mortgage payments to a bank (details supplied) where their mortgages have now been sold to vulture...funds are not unfairly evicted from their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54145
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Book of Estimates, 2003: Motion (Resumed).

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2002-11-20/20/
    20 Nov 2002 - He cuts funding for social housing while giving 100% tax relief to the vultures who speculate in rented...He slashes funding for rebuilding national schools while funding the 25% per annum bonus to those who
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed)

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-10-09/17/
    9 Oct 2019 - While it will deliver for a small few and is certainly positive for bankers, vulture funds, developers...true we need to address Brexit, our alternative budget was much more ambitious, with a stabilisation fund...of €2 billion compared with the Government's proposed fund of €1.2 billion.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-07-07/14/
    7 Jul 2020 - The additional money being provided through the microfinance fund is welcome....The interest rate is key for those availing of the fund....It would be awful to see firms borrowing to pay a vulture fund, for instance, which might have no interest...How this fund is used will be important....I have looked at the profile of the microfinance fund which was introduced in 2012.
  • Debate: Dáil Éireann

    Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020: First Stage

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-07-28/18/
    28 Jul 2020 - protection of private property, particularly when we are talking about the private property of landlords, vulture...funds and others who seem to think their wealth is more important than the right to secure and dignified

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