Leadership aside, the biggest departure from what the commission recommended is that the new body will have no legislative power

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Plans for new Strategic Housing Activation Office as well as asylum system overhaul and military radar due before Cabinet

Legislation going through Oireachtas aimed at rolling Irish Bank Resolution Corporation into Nama before combined entity wound up

New role will head up the Strategic Housing Activation Office, which is being established in the Department of the Taoiseach in the coming weeks

The febrile post-Troika atmosphere contributed to the contentious decision to proceed with the sale of its Northern Irish portfolio after the leading bidder pulled out

Inquiry concluded agency had got the best price for €1.6 billion Project Eagle lands

Plus: Marc MacSharry will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree; Sammy Wilson’s silence; and Henry Kelly’s political allegiance

Developer’s return comes as company realises €44.6m from landbank sale and amid uncertainty over Nama funding

The Radisson Red hotel opened recently on the outskirts of Galway city as one part of a major 12.5 acre residential and commercial development at Crown Square by the Rhatigan Group

Property mogul says he was misled from the start by Nama and was asked to pay back all the money he owed the taxpayer. In the end he had to concede defeat and was declared bankrupt

The Quinlan Files: Bankrupt property investor received large cash transfers from company chaired by his wife

The former property tycoon’s interactions with Nama emerged in documents filed as part of his UK bankruptcy

Nama would not agree an exit deal with Irish property financier Derek Quinlan, the agency’s largest debtor

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Bankruptcy finally caught up with tycoon Derek Quinlan, an ex-tax inspector famous during Ireland’s boom

Newly obtained UK court records show that the Celtic Tiger property investor who still owes €400 million through Nama used tax rebate to fund his living expenses

A €2.5m Irish tax rebate was cited among reasons the Dubliner stayed in economic purgatory

In October 2023, the Irish financier attended a meeting in London to discuss elements of his financial affairs with one of the trustees of his bankruptcy in the UK

So-called bad bank has moved to take direct ownership of certain land ahead of its wind-down next year