Written answers

Thursday, 9 December 2021

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Photo of Brendan SmithBrendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans new initiatives to support businesses impacted by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60790/21]

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Government continues to support businesses through these challenging times and recognises the impact that the new measures will have on sectors such as hospitality, the arts and entertainment and the night-time economy sectors.

With this in mind, on Friday we announced a package of financial interventions for the hospitality, events and entertainment sectors. The package includes:

- a change to the CRSS or EWSS, details of which will be confirmed very shortly by the Minister for Finance

- an extension of the targeted commercial rates waiver at least until the end of March

- an extra €25 million from the Covid contingency fund applied to the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, in particular to assist the live entertainment, arts and performance sectors.

As the Deputy will be aware, the PUP has also been reopened for workers who lose their jobs or have lost their jobs as a result of the newly announced restrictions.

Details of existing supports can be found on my Department’s website: Government supports for COVID-19 impacted businesses - DETE (enterprise.gov.ie).

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to return business supports available to their original ceiling to those impacted by the latest public health advices and guidelines in 2021 and into the first two quarters of 2022. [61026/21]

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Government continues to support businesses through these challenging times and recognises the impact that the new measures will have on sectors such as hospitality, the arts and entertainment and the night-time economy sectors.

On Friday the Government announced a package of financial interventions for the hospitality, events and entertainment sectors. The package includes:

- a change to the CRSS or EWSS, details of which will be confirmed very shortly by the Minister for Finance;

- an extension of the targeted commercial rates waiver at least until the end of March;

- an extra €25 million from the Covid contingency fund applied to the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, in particular to assist the live entertainment, arts and performance sectors.

As the Deputy will be aware, the PUP has also been reopened for workers who lose their jobs or have lost their jobs as a result of the newly announced restrictions.

Details of existing supports can be found on my Department’s website: Government supports for COVID-19 impacted businesses - DETE (enterprise.gov.ie). All business supports are being kept under review to ensure that they are timely and target those that need them the most.

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