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

The Government fully understands, and I fully accept, the enormously negative impact that Covid-19 has had on the hospitality sector - pubs, restaurants, hotels, travel, the tourism industry more generally - and music, entertainment and the arts. Those sectors have suffered more than most as a result of Covid-19. In the context of the national economic recovery plan, we are clear that we have to make sure that not only as we lift restrictions do sectors come back working again but that we can underpin the restarting and rebooting of those sectors of the economy over the medium term in order to generate employment and strengthen those parts of the economy again. That is the agenda.

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