Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have one supplementary question. In early December, the Minister announced a most welcome €50 million package of support for the live performance sector. Does she have a breakdown at this point of how that has been expended? What is left in the pot? How does she intend to distribute that to those who are still in a very difficult place?

We always made the point, and the Minister always agreed with us, that this is not an industry where we can just turn the lights back on like we can in a factory on a Monday morning and it goes right back into full production. It will take quite a length of time to get back to something resembling normal activity and pre-pandemic times.