Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes

9:30 am

Dr. Orlaigh Quinn:

We will certainly look at the broader impact as well. There is no doubt we will be looking at the impact of the pandemic, what we did and what we could have done, for a long time to come. Insurance was certainly a factor. As the Deputy knows, the Tánaiste chairs the insurance group. The bit we have in it is the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB. We have had some very good results there in terms of the judicial guidelines and the work we did collectively across the Government. We have an interest in anything that affects enterprise. It might not necessarily be ours, but we do have a very strong cross-government approach.

Even to take the example the Deputy raised about the black economy, with regard to the hairdressers, we would have had detailed discussions with the Department of Social Protection, feeding back some of that comment as well. Again, while we do not always have the levers ourselves, we do have a strong voice.

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