Funding to be freed up for flood victims

Money will be available to the Red Cross to provide financial assistance to the victims of flooding in Cork, the environment minister has signalled.

“The Red Cross will be getting additional funds, I expect, from the ministers of finance and public expenditure to help people on a humanitarian basis,” Phil Hogan said yesterday.

However, he said the Government would have to wait on a comprehensive report on the flooding before it could decide on the allocation of funding.