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DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL has approved a €150 million plan by Nama for Boland’s Mill.
The landmark site will be rebranded Boland’s Quay and see three new buildings constructed, while others will be restored.
The three new buildings will comprise approximately 36,851 square meters (about 397,000 square foot) of office, residential, retail and cultural space over a two-level basement.
A new civic plaza on the waterfront to Grand Canal Dock will be developed and a number of protected Mill buildings will also be restored.
Demolition works are to commence immediately, and the project is expected to be completed in two years.
The planning application, which was submitted to DCC in December 2014, is the latest to be approved since the Dublin docklands were designated a strategic development zone (SDZ).
Mark Reynolds, a director at Savills who is acting as the receiver, said the decision to grant planning permission for “one of the city’s most iconic sites” is “great news for the Docklands and Dublin as a whole”.
“The planning approval will now facilitate the examination of options regarding the provision of badly needed commercial and residential accommodation to meet pent-up demand from local occupiers and foreign direct investment.”
The Nama Board may now consider proposals from the receiver for funding or otherwise facilitating the development of the site.
Nama Chief Executive Brendan McDonagh also welcomed the decision, saying it shows the organisation’s commitment to “increasing the value of secured assets in our portfolio and maximising the amount we can recover for taxpayers”.
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KPMG must not be involved
Just give us a General Election and stop stalling the Citizens Rights to get you out you corrupt fools ?
Ilovekerry – why would a successful government who are recognised as doing a great job just walk out and leave?
As to this new report – looks like the government have gone over and above what Catherine Murphy has asked for. As can be seen – this is all huff and puff in the hope of slinging mud and getting it to stick
Have you brushed up on your old politics yet? Lot to learn wee lad. A lot
@Baz,
will this report join the que of all the other sat on/inappropriate reports in Edna’s top drawer of denial?
General election now
Of course they will be involved. This is the government we are talking about. The only ones that think its OK and perfectly fine for people to investigate themselves. Now I wonder why cabinet has changed its mind.
report by the end of the year mybackside noonan will set the terms and await the expected answer
November at latest general election
Think government have made themselves look like fools and they have been laughing stock of everyone. Now they have had to do a major u turn but not before all the shenaghins of last week. But think the public have seen and heard enough to know that they have been found out. A silent taoiseach that should have came out in support of all 166 TDs but didn’t.
noona blames dukes while being savaged by rte news oh times they are a chagin… at last
General Election, Fine Gael will get back in to power.
It wide open for FF, SF, IND, SL, PBP & L.
Fine Gael will decide who they share power with if needed at all.
Look what happened UK elections.
Unless the left join together united, nothing will change in this country.
The political system is set up to keep 1% interests priority, since beginning of ‘Democracy’.
As such, only radical shift in thinking, will tilt the power towards the people of this country.
Why can’t all the left parties join together? For the better of this country and it’s Citizens.
The only reason I can think of is Ego’s, who be the new party leader? Why not have a party council, no leader, equal representation and decision making.
Shift of power is coming, but the shift could be all the power to Fine Gael, unless all the left parties join together.
I couldn’t careless who is in power, if they protected the rights/resources of Ireland and it’s people.
Well then Gill I guess you will not be voting for FG, FF or Labour if your looking for someone to protect the rights and resources of Ireland and its citizens?
Catherine Murphy for Taoiseach!
BAZ – CORRUPT FG/Lab – Corruption has got them sizzled BAZ !!!!!!!
filing error wha?
changes nothing but fact…… excruciating eh hugh?
Ciarraioch, what person are you accusing of being guilty of corruption?
Gill I don’t think anyone wants a left wing government just as much as no one wants the current viciously right wing government, people want fairness and only a centrist party offers that,I and I assume most like me want to pay a fair amount of tax and see services and welfare serviced by them,it used to be fine Fail were the party of choice because of that centrist attitude but at the minute they’re poison, the closet thing to a centrist party at the minute shockingly is Sinn Fein, I see the next election rallying young people who normally don’t vote to get out and basically protest vote for Sinn Fein leading to a either a rainbow or some mixture of Sinn Fein/Fine Gael, red line issues being water, noonan, Kenny and Adams all being out of the picture. Interesting times ahead no matter what
Well let’s just hope there’s a real change.. Sick of civil war politics.. Give the left a try why not see what there like in government? What’s the worse that can honestly happen? Nothing but scare mongering from finne gael. Hope people see past it
I want transparency on all ibrc deals. SiteServ is 1. My tax dollars have been used. IBRC is a publically funded bank. #transparencynow. Anything less is unacceptable.
Its not about deals having to be done necessarily to clean up a mess. It is about transparency. Taoiseach needs to lead. Accountability is important.
If u can find the leader of our country let me know please. Need to have a word.
Now there’s a good idea , Catherine would be a brilliant Taoiseach
If anyone can find kenny can u ask him why there’s no 24/7 A&E unit between NAAS & Limerick anymore after today’s announcement.
Maybe it’s the cynic in me,but the delay in this has given kpmg time to cover up all the leaks and cracks in siteserv??
@baz , or should i say ba, ba,ba, bhaaaa
Sheep like you peddeling party line tripe are well past the sell by date, trot off now down to the curragh with ya and chomp on some grass…..
This govt implemented FF policy that was already in motion and then introduced a few disasters of their own like upping USC, introduction of IW and backroom deals like IBRC for their friends – complete disgrace
Thomas Sinn Fein are not a centrist party when it comes to their economic policies.
baz I rechon you spent a spell as president of UCD branch of YFG
“Filing error” just another of their go to lines when found out. Same thing happened when Kenny insisted there was no letter or minutes in his department regarding the night of the bank guarantee.
@ Diarmuid – “what person are you accusing of being guilty of corruption?” Well anyone who was, and still is, a member of the party when they were found to be involved in the fraudulent activity of paying people under the table and into their hand!
Catherine Murphy has Noonan and Dukes by the balls…..and it obviously hurts !!
Keep squeezing gal…….
Jane I’ll help you out, I never said they were a centrist party,
” the closet thing to a centrist party at the minute is shockingly Sinn Fein”
the normal middle/working class and self employed people of this country are sick of being blatantly attacked by the current government for the benefit of the well off.
the finding a dept. of finance filling error covers noonans backside re answering dail q’s when bryan Dobson asked him tonight on 6 one news why he did not give an answer when he already knew about siteserv and dept of finance issues yet he pretended he answered it in full…..caught misleading the dail noonan or 6 one news?
cunning plan but no cigar noonan
also note update of story at 7.45 and again 9, 3 updates in one day very good but ask about the guy misleading the dail
Sorry Thomas but still don’t think so. SF are as left as can be on economic issues. Thanks for the help though.
Dobson was very good this evening
Very true, I never vote for any political party that sells off our national resources and puts more children in poverty through austerity policies.
Next Election I have no idea who I vote for, truly wish the left join together, it only chance we have to impact change.
The water protests and marriage referendum have awoken people, large, large numbers of us now have protested & canvassed for greater good of this country & it’s people.
Every left party knows that divided they cannot, will not hold absolute power.
People are screaming for something progressive and radical.
Can the Left Please Stand Up !!!
viciously right wing @Thomas?? with most social welfare protected from cut and €20 BILLION in state handouts you must be joking.
@supernova… ‘what’s the worst that could happen’ is your method for choosing a govt? Please point out a successful left wing govt from around the world. north Korea doesn’t count.
@Thomas… don’t let the tax percentage paid by the ‘well off’ get in the way of your rant.
@ Gill – the left can’t stand together because there is slightly veering left, like Labour, to actual left wing. On the other side there is the party with the largest number of seats and the Taoiseach is nowhere to be seen? Going too left I honestly think is not the option, yes there has been hardship / austerity and significant personal suffering but it does seem like we are crawling out of this mess! Car sales are on the up, unemployment is continuing to fall, wages increases are starting (slowly) – now let’s compare this to Greece, each day there is another crisis, will they / won’t they, can they / can’t they? They may get a once off deal, but it will be a number of years before their economy and hence the futures of the Greek people find some stable ground.
Tallagh two,
And there is at least one person I know of, who should pay his whack here, seeing as he controls most of our terrestrial media. But does not, choosing instead to live upon some foreign shore.
And believe me, there are many more like him.
Martin Quinn?
Jane why are they left wing? Because of a third rate of tax ?A wealth tax? Transaction tax? Actually apply the 12.5% cooperation tax rate?That’s not left wing it’s reasonable,myself and I’m sure people who can afford it more than me would pay an extra bit of tax for the good of society, would we like it no but it would still be paid for public services and welfare for people that need it, what’s left wing is the aaa lunatics, so again Sinn Fein are the most centrist viable party at the minute
Tallaght two single parents allowance cut off, job bridge scam to massage unemployment figures, cuts in child benefit, medical cards withdrawn ( subsequently reinstated after public uproar) the likes of people availing of these payments aren’t scrounges as the likes of you likes to pretend, there is societal need for these payments, yes there will always be a tiny minority’s abusing the system much as there will be people at the opposite end of the scale abusing the system as in the moriarty findings
Can the terms of reference be extended to enquire as to why there appears to be an unwritten conspiracy among all of the media in Ireland,to prevent the beautiful and poignant songs written and sang by an artiste,who is arguably Ireland’s greatest living balladeer;from being played on the airwaves.?
http://youtu.be/9sAowRrD4hg
Please share.
In Cork Baz is slang for pubic hair, nuf said
thanks sean good song, just listened to the others as well posting on facebook
All credit to this courageous lady.
I wish we all had a Catherine Murphy in our consistent to vote for.
Where is the leader of this country, or should i ask, who is leading this country.
Where’s Wally?
He’s busy in the aviva with very important national interest issues.
Catherine Murphy seems to be leading this country at the moment…more shame on Edna..
PeriGuon, our leader is busy collecting (1) Dual abode allowance (2) travel & accommodation allowance (3) public representation allowance and shortly a) termination lump sum b) gross lump sum c) termination payment d) ministerial pension e) td’s pension f) teachers pension g) teachers lump sum.
You left out his €10,000 leaders allowance!!!
Doesn’t it look like that Michael Noonan may have to Resign over this alleged cover up ?
This whole Government is truly falling apart and doesn’t have far to travel now, before Enda will have to make that call to The Park , to seek dissolution of it ?
I cannot wait now, for the very near General Election – big changes should occur , when the Corruption is removed by Ireland’s Citizens in the Ballot Box !
Full credit to Catherine Murphy. A mark of what a public representative should be. Not like those who sell mobile phone licences to people in return for cash and funding for a corrupt party.
Well done Catherine Murphy
……………They should be investigating all transactions from IBRC not just certain ….. Who knows what else has been going on!
#whereiskenny
No leader’s questions this week …..
dukes has to be worried now. so much for his smug denials
Mr. Dukes holding his press conference in a solicitors office is all one needs to know …..
Quarry will always retreat to its den when threatened ….
Why did Mr. Dukes feel the need for a solicitor’s office ?
Whole thing shifting towards criminality? Who knows
#searchforenda
Brilliant news. Catherine Murphy completely snookered the government by introducing the bill to allow the C&AG to investigate, effectively calling kennys bluff.
What a public representative, we need a few dozen more like her.
You worried about the libel & defamation you did towards DOB yet chuck? That why the new account?
Let’s hope you hid your ip chum
Great to see ye back Baz, It has’nt been the same here without your defensive?derogatory comments about anything other than FG?LAB.
“Were”… thought you didn’t like people with multiple anonymous accounts… how’s the old hypocrisy treating you?
‘Were jamming’ found the edit button on twitter! Did you get lessons?
Someone on Sinn Fein HQ spend some foreign money on twitter lessons, ‘were spamming’?
“Were” was here while you hid under the DOB/FG bo**oxology of events. At least “were” stood up to be counted.
Patjoe is very quiet – must be writing exams today
You mean stood up to troll?
Sorry but I’ve been around. pushing loads. You must not have seen them over the amount of DOB libel & BS from the journal trolls.
Look after the new account jammin. If anyone knocks at your door just say your phone was hacked
Lovin’ the name,
That was at Panti- briiiiliant.
‘Were’ – your hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Just take a look at his green thumbs @Jason and see your red thumbs, i’d say he is speaking for the majority here. So “were” would seem to be appropriate.
Why is it that all the idiots on here have some sort of monkey as a profile picture it seems to be a common theme?
In fairness to Jason Bobby, the self opinionated clowns that spend all their time on here, most likely clear their cookies to allow them to continue red/green thumb and boost their little ego’s ….. sad
When will it report? Still no sign of Fennelly. Imagine what we could do if we had 166 TDs like Catherine Murphy!!
Very handy to launch inquiry probably report back after election very handy corrupt school teachers Kenny / Noonan
Can we be certain that there wasn’t a few solid months of shredding while all this gagging, toing & froing was going on? This seems like a very sudden U-turn. Common sense told u this KPMG inquiry was never going to wash!
And this isn’t the first time that files have gone “missing” in the Dept of Finance. I seem to remember the same thing happening around the time of the bank guarantee (open to correction on timing).
I told Minister Noonan if he told the truth, he wouldn’t have to remember anything. The smell off this just gets stronger & stronger.
Where do you think Edna is , busy getting rid of all that paper work.
KPMG investigating who should carry out the investigation of KPMG investigating KPMG interaction with ibrc.
They have recommended a dynamic new company called PKMG.
Company or quango?
And don’t forget. .. KPMG also have been official auditors for FIFA world wide for decades and never noticed or suspected the hundreds of millions in bribes floating about the place. And it now transpires that FIFA also had office in IFSC in Dublin involving, FAI officials and past CSOs, specifically to launder the bribes and cheat the taxpayer before transferring them to Switzerland..
This whole thing stinks to high heaven. A can of worms is about to be opened if this investigation is robust.
Watch this space !!!
this should be done by someone outside of this country
Preferably not by someone from Malta though.
or the Caribbean, same shit in a different language down there, but the same player.
It took the military junta in Burma to tell redacted where to go!
The FBI seem to be on a roll at the minute!
they brought in an outsider to referee gsoc(under duress) and then hounded him out, thanks alan shatter again Kenny went to ground, then came out expressing 100% confidence in shatter and callinan, still awaiting how that turns out or did I miss something?
They are “considering” nothing. As per usual the are being dragged kicking and screaming into doing the right thing. Having painted themselves into a corner and having little other option. Remember Noonan refused, on 19 separate occasions to answer questions put to him on this issue by t.d. Murphy in the national parliament, questions about a wholly state owned bank with 30 billion if citizens money sucked into it, and he blanked her.
Wich seems to be the crux of the matter.
This is a farce. When will we ever hear the truth! What about Moriarty Report? What about Taoiseach and Callinan? I have no confidence in Kenny or his people. Look at medical card denial. All civil servants now are agents of what seems like a policy of hiding truth. Fail is a farce too.
In a normal county with a normal police force,there would be no inquiry, the “Organised Crime Squad” would have made numerous arrests by now.
This inquiry is designed to kick the can down the road and ensure that anybody that did anything wrong will never face jail.
Sorry Government, its too little too late. The time to do an investigation was before this and other banks screwed the country.
So launch an investigation before something has happened?
Best. Comment. Ever.
This kicking issued down the road until after Election people !
it would also be nice to know who exactly whose debts we liquidated on prom night…names please?
Go Catherine Go….a proper Rotweiller
I have no faith that any inquiry will go far enough. Most likely it will just be a hollow gesture.
I hope that I am wrong.
There’s hope and there’s false hope !
Ah yes, the commision of investigation, the governments version of kicking to touch
This has all come about from the direct opposition to Irish water, and the massive protests. Thanks to Catherine Murphy for investigating as nothing would have been said had we all laid down and taken it. And they called us spongers for protesting?
Kenny’s silence says it all. Catherine Murphy has shown real courage, and tenacity. She has shown that Independents have power too, when they have determination, staying power, and a strong mind.
yeah, he’s Taoiseach and wasn’t going to pre-empt an obvious clarification from the judiciary.
Thankfully we don’t live in North Korea and he was ordering executions on the back of innuendo and supposition based on sources double checked with the source by someone with zero knowledge of commercial banking in a crisis.
Take it has taoiseach he knows how to read the constitution. Broadsheet did . pity he didn’t. Are you saying our taoiseach and government would not have known that article 15.12 actually stands for. Pull the other one.
Onetruevoice since this wasn’t about what was said. It was about a billionaire trying to silence anyone reporting on what an elected member of the dail said. A dail that he is taoiseach of . he decided to say nothing. That’s the crux . not what was said but what someone tried to do.
Vote independent and clear the buggers out .
LittleOne, ur wasting ur time. #FindKennyFirst.
I think the sneaky gov had two options, fight the rumours and acquasations, end up being found out early, bring down the gov and have an early election, or call an inquiry that will drag on giving the gov the full term in office, then hope they get reelected on scare news of stability needed and improving economy.
Great work Catherine. Keep it going. Shameful that our taoiseach is still silent after last week . he should have stood up in support of all 166 TDs of the dail. But he didn’t . he is silent and hiding. Not the actions of a leader.
So if you are the big tree
We are the small axe
Only some, should they all not be investigated including the politicians that are involved
Ah, here we go. The Irish solution… a scandal, followed by an investigation, leading to a report that recommends a commission, followed by the set up of a tribunal which lasts ten or more years. Talk about kicking the can down the road!
We need more tds like Catherine
We have a few like Ruth, Wallace , Daly, Donnelly , Murphy, It’s a lesson for Enda, Bertie and Cowan & their cronies in How to Serve your Country
Catherine showing Labour how it should be done.
That woman is a champion….!!!!
Question – how did Denis OBrien not wind up in NAMA surely his debt to the irish people were the same as all the others , yet its eems he was not only able to avoid NAMA and have his loans sold on but managed to buy Siteserve for a knowdown price and in some shape or form have it financed by the irish taxpayer and then get IW contract to force water meters on the people even against their will.
Only in Ireland – a vote for FG/Lab is a mandate to this shower of cheats to do more of the same
If you have any pride in Ireland then make sure FG/Lab dont get a vote in GE when it roles around.
Media influence will guide the electorate to produce a GE result to DOB’s liking.
There are ordinary citizens and there are ” super citizens”.
The smelly stuff is about to hit the windy thing me thinks and rightly so
Wow I can hear Chinese walls going up all over the place. Some government we have about a year behind an independent deputy would make you wonder what that are up to when their in Leinster house.
Great all we need now is an enquiry into the corrupt #Eircode tender.
Imagine British consultancy firm PA Consulting were gifted the tender to determine if the original decision by PA Consulting to award British PLC Capita the postcode tender was correct.
#LaughingAllTheWayToBank
Filing error? Ha pull the other one. An enquiry is coming so they didn’t want to be found to be hiding the truth. Catherine Murphy gives me hope about politics in this country.
Is that a Guillotine i hear being sharpened.
The paper work gone missing…Call the FBI…
More rubbish! Report will be out after the GE. Just how much can we wait now! Many many looking forward to the GE! Bring it on! What happened to the Moriarty Report and what about Callinan…. the list goes on
Lol @ filing error. Sounds like something taken straight from Father Ted. Bunch of liars.
Lot of flannel from Noonan.. not his finest hour
amazing how the government seem to be moving towards a legitimate enquiry and the department miraculously find missing documents. amazing!!! heads should roll
Liars, one & all! I wouldn’t trust the radio in Noonans car!
Catherine Murphy is a shining light in an otherwise big pile of shite, caused by & including Govt ministers!
“I gave an adequate answer” sounds like John brutal when he said you didn’t ask the right question…….
Not a single word from the great and powerful leader .. Enda.. As usual . Spineless windbag..
Pity there are no babies for Enda to kiss, we’d have him out in force…
Plenty of well resourced legal teams will ensure effective damage limitation. DOB won’t lose any sleep.
I just hope Murphy’s source isn’t Tony O’Reilly.
This proves that Catherine Murphy has been telling the truth all along. The injunction got by DOB was to stop more truths coming out. Enda Kenny’s silence on all of this says it all.
FG and DOB have a proven history of corruption
And don’t forget. .. KPMG also have been official auditors for FIFA world wide for decades and never noticed or suspected the hundreds of millions in bribes floating about the place. And it now transpires that FIFA also had offices in the IFSC in Dublin, involving FAI officials and past CSOs, specifically to launder the bribes and cheat the taxpayer before transferring them to Switzerland..
That €10M could have been used to bring the World Cup to Ireland, see also
http://thebottomline.ie/fifa-forensic-accounting-and-the-fbi/.
There’s no evidence at all that any of these allegations are correct, but they are now a cause of concern, and I believe it’s in the public interest to ventilate what happened
switcharoo
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