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New Homes in Mullingar for Christmas
Túath are delighted to announce the delivery of 12 new homes in Cloon Lara, Mullingar just in time for Christmas.
Túath worked in partnership with NAMA, Westmeath County Council and the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government to lease these properties on a long term basis via the NARPS initiative and the units are fully occupied by tenants from the Council’s waiting list.
The delivery of these units represents Túath’s support of the NARPS initiative as a means of increasing the supply of social housing and indicates a willingness to deliver additional NARPS schemes across the country in the near future.
Tuath Staff Raise Funds for Peter McVerry Trust
Túath Staff fundraised to make a Christmas donation of over €1,200 to the Peter McVerry Trust to help fund their vital work assisting homeless people. For more information about the Peter McVerry Trust, please visit http://www.pmvtrust.ie/
Castlemanor Retirement Village Official Opening
Túath housing recently celebrated the official opening of one of our schemes in Castlemanor Retirement Village, Cavan. This is a partnership project between Cavan County Council and Túath Housing Association which has resulted in the delivery of 10 new homes in Cavan using Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) funding made available by the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government.
Cavan County Council’s Cathaoirleach, Councillor Shane P. O’Reilly switched on the Christmas tree lights on Friday 5th December in Castlemanor Retirement Village to officially open 10 bungalows for the elderly and disabled.
All 10no properties are fully occupied with tenants from the Council’s waiting list who are delighted to have been allocated these high quality homes. The tenants are located within close proximity to Cavan Town Centre and have a range of onsite facilities including the nursing home, hairdressers, oratory and community centre. Positive Age occupies an office within the development and host regular activities in the community centre which they encourage all residents to attend. These activities have helped ensure the integration of Túath’s tenants with the other residents living within the development.
Túath and Cavan County Council are therefore delighted to have received funding approval to purchase a further 9no units within this development which we expect to deliver in January 2015.
Túath Housing Announces Trio of New Board Members
Túath Housing is pleased to announce three new highly experienced and qualified members to the Board of Directors. Tanya Egan, Patricia Goan and Kerry Anthony will join Túath’s Board, the appointments increase the number of Board Members from 9 to 12.
Tanya Egan
Tanya Egan is a commercial property solicitor with over 15 years’ experience. Tanya has worked on behalf on lending institutions in identifying and rectifying title issues. Tanya has a great deal of experience in acquisition of high volume units for social housing purposes, by way of purchase and also by long lease arrangements, facilitated both though privately raised and government sourced funding. Tanya is from County Tipperary and has worked for most of her career in Dublin.
Patricia Goan
Patricia has over 22 years experience in the housing and property sector, working in key positions with responsibility for new business, development, partnership working and operations. Patricia has worked within the statutory, private and not for profit housing sectors in both Ireland and the UK and provides consultancy services to housing providers and developers. She began her career with a London local authority managing the private sector leasing portfolio and since then has worked on large scale voluntary stock transfers, regeneration, major fund capital investment programmes, private finance, sales and leasehold management. Patricia has held positions of director and CEO with a number of approved housing providers in Ireland.
Kerry Anthony, MBE
Kerry Anthony has worked for Depaul since 2005 as the Director of Services and since 2007 as the Chief Executive. She has been working in the field of homelessness for many years in a variety of settings and roles, in London, Glasgow, Dublin and Belfast. She holds a Masters in Social Work and a Masters in Voluntary Sector Management. Kerry is particularly interested in how to use leadership roles to ensure that there is continued innovation in service provision and to address and break the cycle of social exclusion. At 35, Kerry was made an MBE in the 2010 Queen’s New Year Honours list.
New Homes in Hampton Wood, Finglas
Tuath Housing recently acquired 19 units in Hampton Wood, Finglas, Dublin 11 via Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) funding through the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government. The units were purchased from Dwyer Nolan Developments and will be allocated to priority tenants from Dublin City Councils waiting list early in 2015.
