Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I referred to the live performance restart grant scheme, LPRGS, which is supporting the live entertainment sector by providing those businesses with restart grants to derisk the plan of events in the spring and summer, and I hope that will assist with the costs of reopening. As I said, €14.7 million has been offered under the LPRGS. I can revert to the Deputy with information on the date. That is no problem.

Much of this funding related to Covid supports. We will keep everything under review as we enter the budgetary process and see Covid numbers rise. It may be that some funding could be allocated, but that will all depend on where we are with Covid. We keep in close contact with the sector at all times, and that is why we were able to design schemes that worked for it. That will continue and, as I said, we will monitor the situation.

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