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
Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
As I said, it is a point of interest to me. In terms of the restart grants, in particular the restart grant plus, does the Department have a timeframe for when the review might be carried out and how it might be carried out? Will it be done at a local level through the LEOs or through the funding organisations, or will it be done through the Department? When will it be done?
My second question, which is not related to the Covid grants, is in regard to the Health and Safety Authority, HSA, inspectors. This is covered in part 4 of the briefing note from the Department, which was very helpful and very informative. There were 10,295 workplace inspections and investigations carried out in 2020, with 9,135 inspections which addressed occupational safety and health issues. Given our discussion earlier about the number of premises that were not open during 2021, how many inspections were carried out? I know the HSA was involved in many of the health and safety checks in certain industries over the course of the pandemic.
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