Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am afraid I do not know what the Deputy means by "arbitrary" in this context. The way the restart grant works is that a business has its rates refunded. If a business did not pay rates, then it is not arbitrary for that business to not get a rates rebate. It is a common sense approach but that is not to say there are not other schemes that might help businesses. For example, there is a scheme for people who are sole traders or are self-employed and who do not pay rates but they can get a grant of about €1,000 if they are coming off the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP. A fund was announced last week for sports clubs, for example. Some of those sports clubs can claim from that but there is no arbitrary removal.

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