Mr. Liam Fitzgerald:

Starting with the PUP and the EWSS, these are and have been successful. The only issue upon which we are getting feedback from our members at the moment is that we are approaching the point whereby they cannot afford to pay out the wages in the first place in order to claim them back through the EWSS. That is due to the level of fixed costs they have been dealing with without support. That has been one problem.

As to the freelance staff, the PUP has been successful in retaining as many as possible in the sector.

On UBI, it was a recommendation of the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce from the Department that one of our members, Mr. Pearse Doherty, sat on. He was a member of it so we would wholeheartedly support all of the recommendations in that recovery plan.