Commenting on the Financial Support Scheme for impacted businesses unveiled by the Finance Minister, Retail NI Chief Executive Glyn Roberts said:
“It is disappointing that this scheme offers no effective help to those businesses in retail and the wider supply chain that will have to close as a result of a loss of trade, footfall and consumers.”
“The closure of hospitality will be a hammer blow to our local high streets and we need the Executive to step up and assist businesses who are impacted”
“We hope that the Executive will go a lot further than this limited scheme”
