📋 Tender Overview
The State will stand by the side of those affected by the fire in communities in the Pafos District, assured today the Minister of Interior, Mr. Constantinos Ioannou. Speaking after the end of the meeting of the Council of Ministers, Mr. Ioannou said that 49 people from the affected communities were accommodated in a hotel in Pafos, following coordinated actions by the Pafos District Administration and the Civil Defence.
"Today there is an assessment of the condition of the houses after the restoration of electricity in order to decide who will return. The rest will continue to be accommodated. Also, since the morning, crews of the District Administration are on site to record and evaluate the damage. So far, 14 houses have been affected, two of which have been completely destroyed," Ioannou said. According to information from the Pafos District Administration, four individual residences have been affected in the Community of Polemi, two of which were completely destroyed, as well as a photovoltaic park. The crews of the District Administration continue to record damages to two residences in the Community of Choulu.
"The evaluation will continue and the assurance we have to give is that, after the assessment of the damages, all licensed premises, whether business premises or residences, will be compensated, as was done in previous similar cases," Mr. Ioannou said.
Asked about the amount of compensation that will be granted, the Minister of Interior clarified that this depends on the estimates and cited as an example a previous case, where for damages up to €100,000 the entire amount was compensated. In other cases, he added, 80% was compensated. "There will be an assessment, we will see the maximum possible that we can compensate for licensees, I repeat, premises," he said.
Mr. Ioannou reiterated the assurance that there should be "no concern from people regarding the support of the Government for the destruction of their homes or business premises, if it is licensed."
Asked if he will go to the area, the Minister of Interior said that, at this stage, the Ministers of Agriculture and Justice are responsible and noted that a visit is planned in the coming days, after the recording of damages by the crews of the Pafos District Administration is completed. The most important thing, he explained, right now is to be next to the people who have been affected and resolve any problem that may arise. The recording and assessment of the damage will proceed quickly, within days, as happened in the Limassol District with the tornado last February.
"The sample writing we have so far from the current Administration shows that we moved immediately and this is what we will do in this case, as long as the situation allows. Don't forget that even the fires are raging," Ioannou said.
