Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has outlined the sectors eligible for a £25m COVID-19 financial support package today in a Written Statement to the Assembly.

Finance Minister, Conor Murphy today allocated over £250 million as part of the 2020-21 June monitoring round process.

The need to prioritise Northern Ireland’s economic recovery was discussed today at the first meeting of the reconstituted Economic Advisory Group.

The local economy has clearly been hit hard by Covid-19. My Department responded quickly, getting hundreds of millions of pounds out to businesses to keep them afloat. We have now published our economic recovery plan and have our efforts firmly on recovery and regrowth.

Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon has announced that Disability Action Transport Services will resume passenger transport activities from 1 July.