Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 March 2021
Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht
Impact of Covid-19 on the Entertainment Sector: Discussion
Mr. Liam Fitzgerald:
I thank the Deputy for his questions. Regarding the distribution, I believe the Deputy is mainly talking about the LPSS. We certainly felt the LPSS was a very successful scheme. In fairness, the previous scheme was a pilot with limited resources. The new scheme is ten times bigger. Some people did not get to apply the last time which was due to its size and scale. We felt that what was given out was very effectively used. Hundreds of hours of work were given to technical staff and artists. We expect that to be ten times bigger this time.
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