30 Apr 2020

Coronavirus: Business owner wants commercial rent relief

From Morning Report, 7:50 am on 30 April 2020

Small businesses are crying out for government assistance, including a rent subsidy for all commercial tenants. The government is still considering a number of measures to help them out.

That can't come soon enough for a Rotorua businessman who told MPs at the Epidemic Response Committee that the government was offering little support other than to point them to bank.

Reg Hennessy owns and runs Hennessy's Irish Bar in Rotorua, and is the president of the Bay of Plenty branch of Hospitality NZ.

He speaks to Gyles Beckford.