Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 January 2022

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised)

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Throughout 2021, €4.6 billion was paid under the employment wage subsidy scheme to which the Minister referred. Some 628,000 employees received payments.

Has it been possible to quantify the full extent the benefit that was to the economy and its sustenance and to offsetting the threat created by Covid? Has it been money well spent?

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