Dáil debates
Thursday, 1 July 2021
Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions
Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
11:30 am
Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to cases whereby full-time musicians who are currently in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, due to the ongoing closure of their industry, are receiving phone calls from social welfare officers to ask if they have considered moving to the jobseeker's payment; if this is an operational procedure by her Department; if all persons in receipt of the PUP are likely to receive such a call; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34832/21]
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