Up to € 15,000 for businesses damaged by floods

Businesses and community groups devastated by the floods and denied insurance coverage will receive up to 15,000 euros to recover as part of the plans to be unveiled today.

Foreign Affairs Minister Heather Humphreys and National Defense Minister Paul Kehoe to Unveil New Proposed Support Measures to Cabinet Today in Response to Continuing Concerns about Significant Damage from Recent Winter Storms .

Ms. Humphreys and Mr. Kehoe will say in a detailed memorandum to the Cabinet that it is urgent to put in place a new, demand-driven flood relief program to help those directly affected by the storms. more and more violent to hit this country.

Citing the damage done to businesses, sports organizations, volunteer groups and community groups, they will say that there needs to be a system in place to protect organizations that have been denied insurance coverage.

Under this new system, which should be permanent in the Cabinet, companies and individual groups will be offered immediate support for major weather damage to their properties.

An immediate and immediate payment of up to € 5,000 will be made available to groups that have undergone a damage review, while an additional grant of € 15,000 will also be available after independent verification if the money is needed .

Messrs. Humphreys and Kehoe have decided to push for this policy in response to a series of powerful winter storms that have hit Ireland in recent years.

They understand:
• The widespread floods of Cork, Limerick and Clare in the fall of 2009, in 2011 and in 2015;
• Hurricane Ophelia in the fall of 2017;
• The unprecedented snow storms of March.

The system should also be under pressure because of the concerns expressed by insurance companies, because companies and community groups that actually need financial badistance are rejected because of the risk flood in their area.

However, although the announcement of the policy should be welcomed, concerns have been expressed in recent years regarding other flood prevention programs launched by the Government, as the money claimed is not sufficiently available. .