Large number in North West still waiting on payments from storm scheme

There are calls on the Department of Social Protection to allocate more staff to deal with the compensation scheme which was opened following Storm Eowyn. It comes as there have been more than 90,000 applications for compensation made following the storm, which brought record-breaking gusts to the North West in January. More than 92,000 applications for the Humanitarian Assistance Scheme have been registered to date - a large portion of that fire thought to be from this region. Fine Gael Cllr Enda McGloin has described the scheme as bit of a mess that needs to be resolved quickly