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Building and Construction Minister Shane Jones will take a package to the Cabinet next month recommending financial help for 25 Far North families whose properties were severely damaged or left unstable during two devastating floods last year.
Monetary help will be limited to a Government "top-up" to cover flood damage costs that cannot be met by insurance cover or the property owners' own resources.
The householders are mostly those in the Kaeo, Totara North and Whangaroa areas whose homes were badly damaged or who have ongoing land stability problems from the July 10 flood and an earlier one in March.
A Far North District Council spokesman says engineers and architects have finished on-site assessments of the damaged properties and agencies have looked at funding options.
These details will be included in Mr Jones' Cabinet package.
It had been decided that the minister, who comes from the Far North, would take a case directly to the Government on behalf of affected landowners in the belief that this should speed up relief and bring a financial resolution for the families involved, the spokesman said.
Action on the issue follows a Far North visit by Prime Minister Helen Clark last week during which she went to Kaeo to look at what work had been done on flood mitigation since the deluge of last July.
