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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There are some businesses that did not get the level of support they felt they should have but we moved heaven and earth to support as many employers as we could. From the Deputy's point of view, he will raise with me employers that are not in the schemes but we have had more than 70,000 employers who were in them.
The Deputy might be able to tell me at this meeting. If the business performance of the pantomime company he referred to was down by 30% or more, it should have moved onto the EWSS. He will not comment on that, not unless he wants to-----