Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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179. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Covid-19 supports and funds paid out per sector in 2020. [16538/21]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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180. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Covid-19 supports and funds paid out per sector to date in 2021. [16539/21]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 179 and 180 together.

I am acutely aware of the difficulties that these necessary ongoing Covid-19 restrictions are putting on all businesses right across the country. Business owners are making sacrifices in order to protect their communities.

As you are aware, the Government has put in place a comprehensive package to help businesses and workers during the pandemic, including the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS), the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP), the COVID-19 Restrictions Support Scheme (CRSS), low-cost loans, the deferral and warehousing of tax liabilities and the waiver of commercial rates.

You will also know that Budget 2021 provided a significant package of tax and expenditure measures to build the resilience of the economy and to help vulnerable but viable businesses across all sectors.

Sectoral breakdown of funding is not available but the list of supports and funding allocation is available on my Department's website. Please see the following links for 2020 and 2021:DETE-Supports-Table-31-December-2020.pdf (enterprise.gov.ie) COVID-19 and Brexit Business Supports 2021 - DETE (enterprise.gov.ie)

It should be noted that I along with my Government colleagues are keeping all Government business schemes under review.