Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes

9:30 am

Photo of James O'ConnorJames O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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According to information we have received in briefings, there were approximately 57,500 applications. Some 49,300 had been approved to a value of approximately €195 million. Would Dr. Quinn explain the gap between the estimate and the uptake? What does she feel is the rationale as to why that happened? As I have said, many businesses that were deserving of support did not receive it.