Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is brilliant. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire.

Deputy Lahart spoke about the different payment supports, a matter the Minister mentioned in his opening statement. We know that the EWSS will continue until the end of the year but we are not aware of what will happen in January. The Minister has said that he will outline that on budget day and not at this committee. For clarity, when the Minister was responding to Deputy Lahart, did he say he was allocating €2.5 billion to payment supports? I understand that is not just the EWSS but I ask him to clarify that point for me.