Ms Frances Byrne:

No, what I was referring to was the wage subsidy scheme. We had welcomed it on the evening the Minister announced it and then, unfortunately, there were weeks of waiting. Based on what was said that evening and what was in the media, people who had been laid off returned to their settings, and providers re-employed people or made different arrangements, and then there was this lag. It was not in respect of the front-line scheme but, rather, to the wage subsidy scheme and just because there were those delays. The Department has somewhat made up for that in listening to the sector on this occasion regarding the advisory group. The continuation of that advisory group through the August-September opening and, indeed, into 2021, when we all hope Ireland will move out of the Covid phase completely, will be critical. That is what I meant on that day we were discussing these issues on the radio.