Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed).

Dr. Fergal Lynch:

I will be careful in how I answer because this will be a policy issue for the Government. The Government will need to decide what it is doing with the temporary wage subsidy scheme. It has indicated, as of now, that it will extend it to the end of August. A decision has to be made thereafter. What I am clear about, from the Department's point of view, is that we need to develop a workable funding model that would include either the temporary wage subsidy scheme, if it is in place at that point, which is a matter for the Government, or some other appropriate funding mechanism if it is not. Obviously, the decision on a temporary wage subsidy scheme, its duration and whether it would be extended beyond the end of August, will be one for the Government in the first instance.

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