Mr. Paul Kelly:

Our primary remit is tourism. We extended the adaptation grants to include as much of hospitality as we could, such as pubs and restaurants. Our issue with cafés is about the definition of a café because there are coffee stations in Applegreens, Centras and petrol stations throughout the country. The criteria we had to go off was what was a licensed premises. We were processing thousands of applications on for these grants in a short period of time. That was the practical issue. It is also important to note that that money came from a diversion of our capital funding so it could only be used for capital items such as Perspex screens and hand sanitiser. It could not be used for wearable PPE or other items. It was not a general thing. Those are simply the rules from finance because it was capital funding. The amount of money cafés would have had to invest in capital type items would be very small and therefore, the amount we would have been able to give any café would have been tiny.