Nama chief makes good on Lenihan order not to ‘mess it up’
Agency on track to deliver a lifetime surplus of €5.05 billion by the time it is wound down
Brendan McDonagh
Nama to be down to as low as €10m in loans tied to windup, says CEO
Previous agency target was €4.8bn
Department objected to Government’s ‘housing tsar’ amid concerns over pay and recruitment
McDonagh withdrew from consideration after possibility he might retain €430,000 salary
Zlatan wins the aerial battle but Michael D Higgins still comes home with another striking prize
Plus: Bloomsday hits Tehran (despite Ulysses ban); a great gig for tunnelling experts; and Norman naysayer Aengus Ó Snodaigh
Fifteen years, €24.3m and 1,384 pages later, was the Irish Nationwide inquiry really worth it?
Long running inquiry announced findings this week
Leo Varadkar has more to offer than reality TV shows or doling out PR advice to mega-rich clients
Mary Robinson and Jimmy Carter are exceptions. The political system cultivates the ideology that money is the measure of the man
Nama’s Brendan McDonagh says he could have added ‘value’ to new housing delivery agency
Brendan McDonagh to discuss wind-down of agency before the TDs and senators
Dragons denied: Niall O’Farrell becomes the latest TV entrepreneur to face money woes
Plus: former Mary Lavin home back on market; John Collison’s castle life; and Declan Ganley’s conservative Roman party
Fianna Fáil says salary for head of Housing Activation Office will not be ‘anywhere near’ €430,000
Party TD Seamus McGrath does not accept the appointment has been ‘botched’
Message from the Editor: a morass of Government’s own making on housing
Unseemly bickering between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael suggests absence of sense of purpose that might at least ameliorate crisis over course of Coalition’s term
Miriam Lord’s week: A tsar has not been born and they need to get this tshitshow off the road
James Browne talks up his A-Team, TDs watch the pros in action while Pa Daly delights in saying nothing
Housing tsar row: FF and FG continue to snipe after collapse of Brendan McDonagh appointment plan
Fine Gael blocked appointment this week over concerns it was kept in dark about process
Housing Activation Office explainer: How does it differ from what the Housing Commission recommended?
Leadership aside, the biggest departure from what the commission recommended is that the new body will have no legislative power
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