Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The wage subsidy scheme and the pandemic unemployment payment were welcome supports. I appreciate that these supports will continue as we move towards normal living with the coronavirus but I hope that the stimulus package to be announced today will provide supports for tour guides, small hospitality businesses which only ever operate in June, July and August and as such were not open in February to qualify for these supports. Will the wage subsidy scheme and rates moratorium continue into 2021? Private bus operators surely should also be included.

As we ask more people to continue to work from home the cost for many of setting up a workspace in the home is a barrier. It is vital that when working from home people are able to separate work from personal life for wellbeing. Is it proposed to provide an increase in tax relief for those working from home, besides giving them proper broadband?

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