Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria for self-employed persons in receipt of a Covid payment in circumstances (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4355/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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On 5^thAugust the Pandemic Unemployment Payment was introduced as a Statutory Scheme. To be eligible for payment a person must satisfy all qualifying conditions of the scheme. In the case of a self- employed person their trading income must have either ceased due to the impact of Covid-19 or their self-employment income must have been reduced to €960 or less over a rolling 8- week period.

Where a company is refusing to pay a contractor for goods supplied, that is an issue between the contractor and the company concerned and is a matter of law irrespective of the reason being advanced by the company. It would not be appropriate for my Department to comment on such matters.

I trust that this clarifies the position for the Deputy.