Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised)
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
This is my last question. We all want restrictions to be lifted in line with the public health advice and for people to be able to get back to work, but we also know that in the third quarter of this year 180,000 people are projected to be unemployed as a result of the pandemic restrictions due to Covid. It is outlined in the stability programme update that the pandemic unemployment payment will not exist in 2022. That is there in black and white in the report. What is reported is that it will be phased out from the end of June onwards. Is the Taoiseach denying that it will be phased out? Could he give the commitment given by his predecessor that the supports will not be cut while sectors are restricted from returning to work as a result of public health guidelines?
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