COVID-19: Update on the Financial Position

Part of Ministerial Statements – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 12:45 pm on 19 May 2020.

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Photo of Mark Durkan Mark Durkan Social Democratic and Labour Party 12:45, 19 May 2020

— businesses that are significant employers and important service providers but have been unable to avail themselves of any assistance. I know of someone who had been renting premises off a charity — it was not readjusted for rates — whose employee numbers disqualify them from the hardship fund. Can the Minister give a commitment to work with the Department for the Economy to establish some type of mop-up fund or final safety net for such businesses to ensure that none of them go to the wall completely?