The Restart grant scheme was launched in May 2020 and was live on all local authority websites. It was advertised extensively both nationally and locally as well as across social media. The Scheme was initially intended to provide grants in tandem with the phased re-opening of the economy as per the Government’s Roadmap. As the Roadmap was accelerated, so too was the scheme available to all eligible businesses and sectors.
The numbers of applications nationally had begun to taper off as we considered introducing an expanded Restart Scheme with higher grant levels. As the Government decided to introduce the higher grant levels, to the benefit of a much larger group of businesses, it was decided to end the original scheme. The Restart Grant Plus Scheme was launched in August 2020, with increased minimum and maximum grants available to a larger cohort of businesses.
Businesses, for whichever reason, that were unable to apply for the original Restart Grant scheme were entitled to submit an appeal to their Local Authority. In this context it is important to note that for the purposes of the Restart Grant and Restart Grant Plus schemes, each Local Authority was the decision-making body and the appeals body, so individual appeals were directed in the first instance to their respective Local Authority, noting the circumstances/reasons for the particular appeal.
I have outlined in the table below the specific information requested by the Deputy, as at 9 April 2021:
|
Local Authority
|
Appeals Total €
|
|
Carlow
|
€0
|
|
Cavan
|
€16,722
|
|
Clare
|
€332,285
|
|
Cork City
|
€4,150,702
|
|
Cork County
|
€0
|
|
Donegal
|
€1,279,241
|
|
Dublin City
|
€3,019,326
|
|
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown
|
€723,941
|
|
Fingal
|
€400,000
|
|
Galway City
|
€1,000,000
|
|
Galway County
|
€1,180,744
|
|
Kerry
|
€500,000
|
|
Kildare
|
€2,001,820
|
|
Kilkenny
|
€0
|
|
Laois
|
€0
|
|
Leitrim
|
€0
|
|
Limerick
|
€54,692
|
|
Longford
|
€400,000
|
|
Louth
|
€1,298,948
|
|
Mayo
|
€477,033
|
|
Meath
|
€562,413
|
|
Monaghan
|
€0
|
|
Offaly
|
€613,344
|
|
Roscommon
|
€505,110
|
|
Sligo
|
€566,816
|
|
South Dublin
|
€500,000
|
|
Tipperary
|
€0
|
|
Waterford
|
€454,509
|
|
Westmeath
|
€61,185
|
|
Wexford
|
€1,532,492
|
|
Wicklow
|
€591,793
|
|
GRAND TOTALS
|
€22,223,116
|
