Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 11, to delete lines 19 and 20 and substitute the following: “(iii) the scheme commonly known as the Live Performance Restart Grant Scheme;”.

These amendments make changes to sections 5 to 10, inclusive, to delete references to the scheme commonly known as the "live performance support scheme phase 4" and replace that with the new name of the scheme, which is the "live performance restart grant scheme". This is to reflect the change in the name of the scheme that happened since I published this Bill a few weeks ago.

Sections 5 to 10, inclusive, amend existing debt warehousing arrangements to give effect to the recent announcement by the Government that the tax debt warehousing scheme would be extended for an additional four months for businesses impacted by public health restrictions that came into effect on 20 December. This four-month extension is only available to those entitled to payment under a number of Covid-19 supports scheme. Sections 5 to 10, inclusive, list those schemes, including a number of them administered by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. One such scheme is referred to in each of the six debt warehousing sections as the scheme commonly known as the “live performance support scheme phase 4”. Since the Bill was published, the name of that scheme has been amended in the way I described, and these amendments simply update the references accordingly. I commend them to the committee.