“We’ve laid off the vast majority of our staff,” Joe Russell, the managing director of Trump’s Doonbeg resort on Ireland’s west coast, said in an interview. He declined to say how many had been let go or furloughed under the government’s wage subsidy program. “We are ensuring they’re looked after in terms of the government schemes that are available,” he said.

The Irish wage subsidy program, which has been up and running for several weeks, pays companies to cover 70% of furloughed staff’s weekly take-home pay, subject to a cap, as long as they’re kept on the payroll. For the lowest earners, the government will cover as much as 85% starting next month. A separate Irish program allows individuals who’ve lost work because of the pandemic to claim a weekly payment.

The U.K. formally launched a similar program on Monday to cover 80% of workers’ salaries capped at 2,500 pounds ($3,100), receiving applications from more than 140,000 companies on the first day.

Companies in both countries must apply for the funds on behalf of their employees and are encouraged to make up the difference so workers can get their full salaries.

Russell, the manager at Trump Doonbeg, declined to say whether the resort was topping off the government-funded wages. He said that staff numbers vary according to the season but that during peak times the resort employs about 300 people.

The resort was due to open at the end of March, leaving those scheduled to start in limbo until the government stepped in with additional direct payments to support workers nationally affected by the lockdown, said Rita McInerney, a local business owner who lives nearby.

McInerney said the resort has about 90 year-round employees, some of whom are continuing to work as part of a skeletal maintenance staff. She said she’d heard from locals that the rest who’ve been let go are using the government wage subsidy program.

“If by availing itself of government subsidies it keeps the business employing people here, then of course they should use it,” McInerney said. “The Trump Organization have been very good to local community.”

Trump Turnberry in Scotland is applying to tap the U.K. bailout funds for employees, according to Peter Henderson, a local elected official who lives near the resort and has spoken to workers there.

Like any company, he said, the resort should take advantage of the relief program. “There’s no one playing the course. They followed the rules and closed up shop,” he said.