Donegal Councillor welcomes changes to Tenant Purchase Scheme
A Donegal Councillor says changes to the Tenant Purchase Scheme means pensioners in the north west living in council homes are now able to buy their home. Under current legislation, the state pension was not seen as adequate as they were not in receipt of ‘regular income.’ Councillor, Micheál Naughton…
Tenant Purchase Scheme to change in February
The Cathaoirleach of Leitrim County Council says people living in local authority-owned houses and who are on pensions will soon be able to apply to buy out their house under the Tenant Purchase Scheme. To date, people on pensions were unable to buy out their houses, even if they…
Deputy Scanlon calls for Minister Murphy to publish the 2016 Tenant Purchase Scheme report
A local Sligo Leitrim TD is calling on The Housing Minister to publish the overdue 2016 Tenant Purchase Scheme report and to stop discriminating against the older communities. The housing scheme enables local authority housing tenants to buy their own homes at a discounted price subject to conditions… with one…
Donegal TD criticises Housing Minister for not publishing TPS report
A Donegal TD has once again criticised the Housing Minister for failing to publish a report on the Tenant Purchase Scheme. The scheme allows council tenants to enter into an agreement with their local authority to purchase their home. The scheme was reintroduced in 2016, but there have been issues…
Scanlon: ‘Tenant Purchase Scheme discriminates against those on social welfare’
A Sligo/Leitrim TD says the requirements to qualify for the Tenant Purchase Scheme are too strict for people on social welfare. In January of 2016, The TPS was created to help local authority tenants buy their own house. However, TD Eamon Scanlon says that one of the requirements to avail…
Claim that pensioners losing out on Tenant Purchase Scheme
A Donegal TD is calling for the Tenant Purchase Scheme to be made more flexible so that more people can benefit from it. The scheme is to enable local authority tenants buy their homes. But Fianna Fail Deputy Charlie McConalogue says restrictions in the scheme at present make it far…
Bohan wants speedy review of Tenant Purchase Scheme
A Leitrim councillor is calling on the Minister of State for Housing and Urban Renewal to speed up a review of a scheme that was meant to help people purchase a home. Fianna Fail Councillor Mary Bohan was among Leitrim councillors and officials who met the minister, Damian English, when…