Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Tánaiste announced today a further set of initiatives to try to deal with those who are experiencing great hardship due to this disease but do not have the ability to participate in the CRSS. He has launched a fund today that is designed to support businesses that have premises but those premises are not public facing. For example, it could be a premises of a business that does not have customers but has been very badly affected by Covid. That should help some of the businesses to which the Deputy has referred. Very broadly, the supports we now have in place are supporting 1 million people in our country today. They all need and deserve this help and we are doing all that we can to keep this help in place. I do accept, despite the variety of schemes that we have, that not every business can avail of them in the way they would want but I hope the initiatives announced today will offer further help.