Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

These are the facts and the Deputy must know them. She is being completely disingenuous in her attack on the Government on this issue.

As regards her question about reviews, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection is there to hear reviews. We are not out to undermine anyone on the PUP or to single them out in any shape or form. I want to make that very clear. On the contrary, the pandemic unemployment payment is working and has worked, along with the wage subsidy scheme, to underpin the economy. The latest retail sales figures for May and June are evidence of how these interventions have worked to underpin the economy.

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