Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 July 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector
Mr. Conor Falvey:
On the other issues on the wage subsidy scheme, there was an initial view in some sectors that people were not eligible for that. There was no preclusion of people from availing from either the wage subsidy scheme or the pandemic unemployment payment by virtue of whichever section they were working in. All supports were available to all sectors and we will continue to work with all of these sectors in terms of the roadmap to recovery and re-establishing activity as soon as possible. The film and audiovisual sectors are well advanced in terms of their plans for recommencing work and our primary focus remains on getting people back into work-----
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