Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The information I have is that people are on the ground. There is a humanitarian assistance scheme in place. There is a €10 million fund in place for that.

Separately, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment is ready to activate the flooding support scheme for small businesses and sports clubs that are unable to secure flood insurance and are affected by the flooding. There are details in the written reply as to how those measures can be availed of. We will certainly look at sports clubs as well if there are particular issues in that regard that need to be addressed. That has happened in the past and we are certainly willing to look at that again, as I said to Deputy O'Connor and Deputy O'Sullivan today.

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