A sum of €109,000 has been paid to 275 claimants in the initial emergency assistance response to assist flood victims in Limerick, said Housing Minister Jan O’Sullivan yesterday.

A separated father of two from India was awarded €6,348 — the maximum award under the Equal Status Act — after the Tribunal found a health service provider had failed to furnish him with information, including the address of his children, after he expressed concern that they had been moved to another part of the country by their mother.