Mary Butler

Good morning, Damien.

Apologies, David.

I was just speaking to Damien Tiernan earlier.

Yeah, I'm at the scene and I suppose what we've just heard from Blaunet and from Paul will just tell you the wide range of organisations that have been impacted.

So there's a lot of small businesses, but there's a huge element of social enterprises and community organisations.

And I was actually here yesterday and I spoke to Blaunet.

And you can hear the devastation in both previous speakers'

It's just hard to comprehend the scale of damage that has been here.

Like there's a lot of, you know, there's four churches, there's a Sudanese community centre, there's the School of Music.

There's such a community element to what the Tycho Business Park is, right in the city of Watford, top of the town, as we call it.

And people are devastated.

And also, you know,

I'm very conscious of all the residents who are living in close proximity.

They're in their houses with their windows and their doors closed.

They're not coming out.

They've been asked to stay away from the site and they have done that.

And I'm very conscious of the amount of people that have been impacted also by that.

Yes, so yesterday myself and the Chief Executive of Walford City and County Council, Sean McKeown, we were on the site and we met with management from the Brothers of Charity.

So they operate a day centre for upwards of 30 high dependent people with disabilities every day.

Unfortunately, there is no service available to those people today.