Ó Cuív to review all flood victim applications

SOCIAL Protection Minister Éamon Ó Cuív has agreed to review all applications for emergency funding from flood victims who believe they have been short-changed by the Government scheme.

As part of a continuing campaign by St Vincent de Paul, a delegation of five Cork-based TDs and one senator met on Wednesday with Mr Ó Cuív at Leinster House.

The cross-party group — which included Labour’s Ciaran Lynch and Kathleen Lynch, Fianna Fáil’s Noel O’Flynn, and Fine Gael’s Deirdre Clune, Simon Coveney and Senator Jerry Buttimer — warned of families facing financial ruin because of the lack of funds being made available.