Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The people who work in live entertainment including music, the arts, the performers, the sound people, promoters and the crew have been crucified as a result of the pandemic and the restrictions which, with the current trajectory of infections, are set to remain so for some time. I have asked repeatedly for months, as have the people involved, and the Minister will know they have been campaigning, for real supports in terms of retaining the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, and other financial supports for reduced capacities in venues or no capacity because of the pandemic, and other supports. Will the Minister respond to their desperate pleas?

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