Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Regarding the damage caused last Thursday night in the rioting and looting, an awful lot of businesses lost what would have been one of their busiest days. I was in town on Thursday, and we know what happened then. On Friday, many businesses did not open or they went in to assess the level of damage. On Saturday, there was a huge difference in Dublin city centre. Numbers on the north side were very small. I walked from the Garden of Remembrance to the south side. It was a bit better there but trade was still down. Is there scope, under subhead A15 perhaps, to provide supports? A lot will be covered by insurance. I understand that but there will be expenses not encompassed by insurance due to an event over which people had no control and by which they were seriously damaged.