Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I accept that and I have acknowledged most of what the Minister has said already. It is not just the fault of the Minister, particularly as the task force could have been set up by the caretaker Government. It could have been established quite quickly under the new Government but we still have not seen sight of it. One of the problems now emerging, which in a way is under the Minister's brief, is that the Covid payment to many artists and musicians is being cut. Will the Minister have a conversation with the Minister for Social Protection to explain the nature of artistic endeavour and musicians and the fact that this sector will be the last in society that will return to work and that a cut in the pandemic unemployment payment for those in the sector at this stage is dire and retrograde in the extreme?

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