Ms Marian Quinn:

The reopening grant does not apply to all businesses. It is specific to early years childcare providers. The temporary wage subsidy scheme applies to everybody. We are awaiting the full details on what exactly the reopening grant can be spent on but our information to date has been that if there is increased administrative or cleaning work specific to Covid-19 expenses for personnel, then that money can be used. That will be challenging for providers because where the temporary wage subsidy scheme does not cover the wage of the employee, the employer will be stuck trying to find the funding to do that because it cannot raise parent fees and nor would it want to. Therefore, it will need to come out of the small income it has, given it is at reduced capacity.