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

I will abridge the response so I can fit it all in. There have been two grants, the restart grant and the restart grant plus. The first was worth about €250 million and the second about €300 million but we topped it up because there were top-ups along the way. About €100 million or so was transferred from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to my Department just the other day, and we are going to get that out to local authorities to cover the costs of the restart grant plus and some appeals that came in. There are those who did not get around to applying for the first grant but who were entitled to both. We are honouring that. There are no plans for any new restart grants, really because the scheme has been taken over by the Covid restrictions support scheme, CRSS, which pertains to the weekly grant that is now given to any business that is closed as a result of the Covid restrictions. That is not to say they might not come back again in some form but there is no plan at present.

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