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BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITY groups in Creeslough are in line to receive emergency funding of between €5,000 and €20,000 to repair damage caused by the service station explosion that killed 10 people.
Cabinet today signed off on the Emergency Humanitarian Support Scheme for businesses affected by the blast in Co Donegal last month.
The scheme will provide humanitarian support payments towards the costs incurred by small businesses, sporting, voluntary and community premises, to repair damage including the replacement of flooring, fixtures and fittings and damaged stock.
The scheme will not, however, provide a contribution to loss of earnings or loss of business goodwill.
This financial assistance is targeted at small businesses with up to 20 employees, sports clubs and community and voluntary organisations. It will be made in two stages.
The first stage will commence immediately and will provide a contribution of up to €5,000, depending on the scale of damage incurred.
Where businesses or premises have suffered significant damage costing more than €5,000, businesses can apply for additional financial assistance, following an assessment by the Irish Red Cross.
The total level of funding available for both stages combined is capped at €20,000.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said: “This scheme was originally established to help businesses with the costs of repairing damage from flooding and weather events, where they could not get insurance through no fault of their own.
“However, extending this scheme on an exceptional basis, will go some way to help businesses and community and voluntary organisations based in Creeslough to get back on their feet after the tragic event there last month.
“The Irish Red Cross Society will administer and make payments under the scheme on behalf of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with the maximum flexibility.
“The local enterprise office in Donegal will also be working with Donegal County Council (and) other agencies on the ground in Creeslough to ensure that those whose properties have been affected are given every assistance possible.”
The scheme will run concurrently with, and be complementary to, the Creeslough Community Support Fund which is also being administered by the Red Cross in collaboration with An Post and Applegreen to provide rapid and long-term assistance to the Creeslough community.
Applications forms will be available on the Irish Red Cross Society website redcross.ie
The scene of the explosion remains sealed off while investigators continues to assess the building.
Yesterday, parliamentarians paid tribute to the 10 people killed in the blast.
The names of the victims of the tragedy were read out in the Dáil as time was set aside to remember them.
The 10 people who died in the blast were: Robert Garwe and his five-year-old daughter Shauna Flanagan-Garwe; fashion student Jessica Gallagher; Celtic fan Martin McGill, Sydney native James O’Flaherty; Catherine O’Donnell and her 13-year-old son James Monaghan; shop worker Martina Martin; 14-year-old Leona Harper; and carpenter Hugh Kelly.
Their funerals were held in the days after the explosion.
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That is the nature of insurance sure
As opposed to the insurance against nature.
These guys sicken me the way they insist on guaranteeing margins for themselves. Imagine a bike rental guy in the Aran Islands insisting on charging all tourists €50 per hour because ‘last year was a rainy summer’. FBD tried to hike mine but I went to Chill. The industry have the public over a barrel with the compulsory nature of their product. Its analogous to me placing a bet with a bookie, losing, and then robbing the place at gunpoint to get my money back. Yet governments around the world are afraid to stop them. Banks have the same ‘risk is not for us to suffer’ attitude.
That is all to do with Governments obsession with Corpocracy – the interest of the consumer always plays seconds fiddle to Corporations – why could shareholders not be told there had been a bad winter and dividend increases are being withheld for once – rather than effectively steal the losses
back off consumers.
They already hiked renewal premiums on my car and home insurance and that is why I’m no longer an FBD customer.
You’re right Jayo….it’s on the consumer’s interest to play insurance companies off one and other….I got my renewal from FBD a few weeks ago, checked around for another quote elsewhere, which in almost ever instance was coming in quite a bit cheaper….rang them back and told them that I didn’t want to move but because it was cheaper with someone else, that I had no other option…..they end up matching the other quotes!! Happy days!!
Pretty sure it’s FBD not FDB as it’s spelled in your headline……
Thanks Craig, that’s fixed now.
No… still FDB. ….
Thanks Brian, it might take a minute to update on all browsers.
They lost €20 million but still made €5.6 million. So how much have they made in the last. 5 years…..?
A lot…..and yet the greedy feckers will still want an increase.
What’s more….they will be allowed.
DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!
5.6 million is not a huge profit for a company that size.
Gangsters…
Sure just ask the government to set up a usc2 to help you out I’m sure they’ll oblige
No Nonsense.ie becomes FU.ie
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