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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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My wife bought me a ticket as a Crimbo present I won €500 yay!! She has just spent it in Ikea!!! now I’ve to put all these flat packs together!!
Clever woman!
Congrats! And jealous of your wife’s lkea shopping spree :) happy flat packing!
Ah I’m happy for them…..but am so jealous!
I know I will get a lot of red thumbs for this. The only reason people go public after winning the lotto is to gloat to the rest of the country. I have more respect for people who dont go public
No I think you get less money if you stay anonymous.
I dont think its true graham. You dont have to go public. I know I wont even if they offer an extra, lets say 10k, to the 1M won.
How’s that?
Sorry you get an extra €20,000 for going public. Stand there for a few photographs for an extra 20k. I’d do it.
No way would I go public if I won it. I don’t want the papers harrassing me or my family
But what about the begging letters? I’d keep sending them if I won.
Jaysis that jokes so old it doesn’t have ancestors
Complete myth you get more for going public. National lottery confirmed it, pretty sure the journal had an article about it a few months ago
You get exactly the same money. Only difference is if go public you get the champagne day with the handing over of the cheque and photos shoot etc
I’d be fairly raging if I was the aunt….. Hope the throw her a few quid.
Why are media outlets so obsessed with the fact “the winner has yet to come forward”? The same in that rag, the independent. The draw was less than 48 hours ago! Give them a chance. And congrats to the winner and to this couple. Great start to their life together!
No i didn’t win but it’s my near year’s resolution to do just that.
“This will definitely help with the wedding” …. wedding of the decade there id say if that will just “help” :-) And as for the €1mill I suppose I should have bought a ticket! maybe Next time!!
how many tickets went into the drum on the night of the draw looked nothing like 300000 tickets we all sat looking and waiting and over 90% didn,t make it into the drum {ripped again}
Dave i think i read somewhere that only a certain amount of them go into the draw for the million…..they are all supposedly put in for the other draws. Same as winning streak only 100 tickets go into drum for the following weeks programme. I could be wrong
Money can’t buy happiness !!! Congrats to the winners !!
True, money can’t buy happiness, but it makes the search for it much more comfortable.
If I did I will be shovelling the cocaine into my gaf!
No.
Id love to be at that wedding if it only going to help. I’d go collect me million if it would only stop raining.
Quite like the blonde in the green dress in the lotto crimbo
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