Mr. Pat Dawson:

The long-term position with travel agents is that we will have two years without any income whatever. As my colleague, Mr. Hackett, has said, we got some help but that will certainly not keep us afloat. We have 200 small companies dotted around Ireland and to date the support has not been tailor-made. We will meet the Minister for Transport for the first time next week and perhaps that will bring something. Currently we are bleeding money and new licences must be issued on 1 April. It is a bleak front for all of us. We have not got enough support. We are fighting through refunds and trying to support our customers. We have certainly got little or no meaningful help from the Government.

We were at level 4 or level 5 restrictions for 15 weeks of last year's 52 weeks. The Covid restrictions support scheme has proven useless because we have seen level 5 restrictions so much over the past 12 months. It looks like this could last for two years. We are in dire straits. Many Ministers have promised to help us in a meaningful way but that has not happened.