Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This falls under the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. We have met the Department and, basically, regardless of what it is called, we want to achieve a support system that allows workers to do short-time work. There will be a payment. It is called the short-time work support scheme so they will be able to get support. They will get the majority of the wages that they were earning, but they will use that time to train and upskill. It might only be a temporary arrangement in which they will only be laid off for a short period. That will be able to assist them before they are back at full-time work again.