Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy used the phrase "so be it". That is not a luxury that was open to me when I was dealing with the threat of a mass unemployment crisis. At no point in the exchange we had did I seek to attribute to him responsibility for failures I may or may not have. The case I am robustly making is that by any independent evaluation of the employment wage subsidy scheme, it has played a massive role-----