Mr. Niall Cody:

By and large on the temporary wage subsidy scheme everything is complete. Approximately 1,500 or 1,600 cases had compliance issues to sort out. That is down to 300 still open. We had the reconciliation process, which was essentially the balancing of the scheme, because for the first five weeks we paid everybody €410 per week. That was a policy decision and we knew we would have an overpayment there.

The employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS, structure is a bit different. It is still linked to a reduction in turnover but we do a far more real-time compliance programme as businesses are claiming. Members may be aware that in June last year we introduced the eligibility review form. Every month, the business had to tell us its level of turnover so as to do a comparison with the 2019 base year. There is an ongoing basis-----