Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

An unemployment rate of 11% at the end of the year would equate to 260,000 people unemployed. Taking the traditionally unemployed total of 128,000 out of it, it will leave approximately 130,000 Covid-related unemployed. Some of those sectors potentially will still not be able to return to work because of public health guidelines. I am thinking of those who worked in areas such as tourism, aviation, where there are mass gatherings and so on. There was a commitment given in the past that their payments would not be cut as long as Government decisions basically prevented them from returning to their job. Does that commitment still stand?