Mr. Tim Fenn:

I thank the Senator. The oversight group has submitted its initial report to the Government. It broadly covers some of the requests we have presented here. Perhaps it does not go far enough in relation to the Covid restrictions support scheme and the complexities around that but we have all been feeding in our requests and concerns to the Government. It is up to the Government to take a longer-term view on where this is going. For the 270,000 livelihoods on which we are focusing here, we need the businesses to survive and to have the fuel in the tank to get started and get going again when the time is right. Public health and safety obviously is a key part of our concern. There is no lack of information going into the Departments of Finance, the Taoiseach; Enterprise, Trade and Employment and, in particular, Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. The complexity of this is such that we are concerned that, after opening, the Government will all of a sudden decide it is time to pull away from supports. There will be a long tail on this and, even when we are open, there are likely to be restrictions around large events and certain types of event - funerals, weddings, whatever. That will have a massive impact. The key is making sure the businesses have the ability to survive.