Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The information is already on the website and we do not need to produce a report on what is on the website. It is there for everybody to see.

I might also add, insofar as EWSS is concerned, the main purpose of the Bill was to give statutory effect to the enhancements that were agreed by Government that are currently being operated by the Revenue under the care and management provision.

Importantly, the Central Statistics Office has recently issued a publication stating that 84% of enterprises survived at the end of 2021. Looking at the 2020-21 period together, 10% of enterprises are at risk of closing. Approximately 6% appear to have closed. Of those engaged pre-Covid, 94.3% were with an enterprise that has survived. I consider that a phenomenally high success rate. Leaving aside the Ukraine issue, we were experiencing such a strong rebound in the economy following Covid because we kept businesses alive and kept the links with employees.

The scheme was successful overall. The information relating to the operation of the scheme is published on the Department's website on a bimonthly basis. For those reasons, I am not in a position to accept the Deputy's amendment.

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