NAMA and your hopes and fears for 2011
Aoife Stokes
The Frontline; Assistant Producer
Tonight's Prime Time Investigates, Carry on Regardless, looks at life in NAMA for some of Ireland's top developers. Between them Ireland's top 30 developers owe more than 27 billion to the banks. It has been argued by some that if the banks weren't guaranteed by you and me, the taxpayer, the developers would be out of business. The programme documents the activities of some of the developers in NAMA from their day-to-day lifestyles to the transferring by some of assets into their spouses' names.
But regardless of what lifestyles NAMA developers have maintained we're asking has the original aim of NAMA, to ensure banks have money to lend to their customers, been achieved? Pearse Doherty from Sinn Fein and Government TD, Thomas Byrne, will debate the issue along with members of the audience
Also, with just 11 days left in 2010 we ask what 2011holds for us as a country and for you at home. People in the audience will tell us their hopes and fears for the new year as the budget cuts and tax increases are implemented and a panel of Fionnan Sheahan from the Irish Independent, economist, Ronan Lyons and Siobhan O'Donoghue of Claiming Our Future will give us their predictions.
*Tonight's show will be pre-recorded an hour early to allow our audience make their way home before the worst of the freeze hits so that means we won't be able to read out email or text comments tonight. Hopefully we'll be back live in January for the rest of the season!
