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Offerahome initiative for Ukrainian Refugees and Croi Conaithe Scheme Apparent Conflict

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  • 14-01-2023 11:19am
    #1
    E30M3
    Registered Users Posts: 320 ✭✭


    Just a heads up as people with a vacant property may not realise this.

    The Croi Conaithe scheme offers a grant of €30,000 if you have a property that meets certain criteria including being vacant for the 2 years prior to application. This is to update a property to provide accommodation for the owner. So if you had a vacant house and put it on the market the new owner could apply for this grant.

    However it appears that if you have a property that qualifies for the grant and offer this on a temporary basis under the offerahome initiative it will potentially cost you €30,000 as you no longer qualify for the Croi Conaithe scheme.

    I thought there might be a process where you prove eligibility for Croi Conaithe prior to making the property available for Temporary Refugee Accommodation but that doesn't seem to be the case.

    Poorly thought out it seems and will either mean that people will have to leave properties vacant to maintain Croi Conaithe qualification or perhaps inadvertently lose that by providing the property under Offerahome.

    Am I interpreting this correctly or does anyone have a different understanding.



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