Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have been engaging with all of the PUP recipients, particularly those who went onto PUP prior to it being reopened in December of last year. We have contacted every single one of them and offered them our services. Some of them at the time were waiting for their sectors to reopen and some were waiting because their jobs had not come back. We have engaged with them and we continue to do that. Every week, the number on the PUP continues to reduce, and it went down a further 7,000 this week. That means the economy is now opening and people are getting back to work. We are continually engaging with them and giving them all the supports we can to help them get back into employment.