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The Green Party is questioning why Civil Defence payments have not yet been activated for people affected by last week's severe weather.
The payments are made available following an emergency event such as flooding or earthquakes, and support people who have had to leave their home and could not return, or if they could not work and have lost income because they could not get to work or their workplace had closed.
The Green Party's social development spokesperson Ricardo MenΓ©ndez March said the payments were a "lifeline" for communties affected by extreme weather events, and accused the government of "holding back" from using everything it had at its disposal.
"It beggars belief why this hasn't been rolled out to simply support people who m
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