Mr. Victor Finn:

I thank the Senator and must confess that I have not given much thought to the concept of the night mayor issue for Dublin. I would need to see the job description or terms of reference. I do not know what our views would be on this or what the intention is there.

PUP and EWSS have helped significantly to protect some existing employment. We have welcomed that and it has been very beneficial to our industry.

Universal basic income, UBI, was a recommendation of the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce and was also in the programme for Government. Yes, we think it is worth examining further by extending it to a pilot scheme for a period of three years and would like to have it as inclusive as possible to allow us to look at the results of the pilot scheme in light of other international comparators in order to see how it works. It has merit and was one of the main recommendations of the task force.