Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the compensatory measures that will be put in place for businesses (details supplied) following weather events in February 2021. [41610/21]

Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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My Department’s Humanitarian Flooding Relief Scheme may be invoked, following a Government Decision, to provide funding on the basis of confirmation received from the local authority and the National Emergency Coordination Group that relevant damage has occurred.

My Department has been in discussion with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage concerning the circumstances surrounding the flooding of a small number of business premises following a weather event in February 2021. As this event was considered a minor flooding incident, it is envisaged that on the invocation of the next emergency flooding scheme my Department will put in place the appropriate measures under which these businesses may apply.