An organisation tackling fuel poverty has said it could be forced into making 14 staff redundant.But TIG said it has had difficulties meeting home insulation standards introduced last year.
TIG said it had been warning of the difficulties around compliance with Publicly Available Specification home retrofit standards for the past nine months, and now faced having to close its insulation department. "Worse still, if the UK and Scottish governments rightly decide to massively ramp up insulation and energy efficiency to tackle the cost of living crisis, it remains to be seen if anything substantive will be done in the area of the country which needs it most, at the time most necessary."The Scottish government said it was disappointing TIG felt it had to go through a redundancy process.
He said the new standards were introduced by the UK government, but added that the Scottish government was offering its support to TIG through funding via the comhairle.The spokesman added: "We hope that TIG will reconsider their decision and work with us to ensure that residents on the Western Isles continue to benefit from good quality and effective energy efficiency work."
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