http://www.johngormley.com/wp/2006/05/16/tenant-purchase-scheme-2/ Green Party Leader and TD for Dublin South East Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:31:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.johngormley.com/wp/2006/05/16/tenant-purchase-scheme-2/#comment-132 la mahon Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:39:17 +0000 http://www.johngormley.com/wp/2006/05/16/tenant-purchase-scheme-2/#comment-132 We as tenants in flats should be given the same opportunity as our house colleagues. Dublin Corporation approached tenants with the proposal first and then it took them 10 years to inform us that they were not for sale, with excuses RE common areas which is addressed in a private complex. We have a precedent set in a Cork court where the residents won the right to purchase their flats, and this scheme is working out well. We also had a court ruling in the Dun Laoighre Rathdown Council where tenents won their right to purchase there maisonottes in the Circuit court the High Court and their joy was short lived as the Council on the last day lodged an appeal, which will now have to go to the Supreme Court. The question now must be asked why the Councils are allowed to use Tax payers to fight tenants in courts, and especially when this scheme was introduced by Mr P Flynn F.F. the minister for the environment at the time. It would appear to me that the Councils are waiting for tenants to die off, as it takes another few years after an appeal, and I feel we have waited long enough. How come the Councils can now get their act togather to be able to introduce a scheme in 2007, am I now to beleive that the obstacles they put in the way previous were only excuses as it would appear to me there was no committment to resolve the issues. We as tenants in flats should be given the same opportunity as our house colleagues. Dublin Corporation approached tenants with the proposal first and then it took them 10 years to inform us that they were not for sale, with excuses RE common areas which is addressed in a private complex. We have a precedent set in a Cork court where the residents won the right to purchase their flats, and this scheme is working out well. We also had a court ruling in the Dun Laoighre Rathdown Council where tenents won their right to purchase there maisonottes in the Circuit court the High Court and their joy was short lived as the Council on the last day lodged an appeal, which will now have to go to the Supreme Court. The question now must be asked why the Councils are allowed to use Tax payers to fight tenants in courts, and especially when this scheme was introduced by Mr P Flynn F.F. the minister for the environment at the time. It would appear to me that the Councils are waiting for tenants to die off, as it takes another few years after an appeal, and I feel we have waited long enough. How come the Councils can now get their act togather to be able to introduce a scheme in 2007, am I now to beleive that the obstacles they put in the way previous were only excuses as it would appear to me there was no committment to resolve the issues.

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