Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount that she has made provision for in respect of the pandemic unemployment payment for the remainder of 2022 and Quarter 1 2023. [50017/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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My Department has made a provision of €75 million for the Pandemic Unemployment Payment for the whole of 2022.

On 27th September 2022, as part of the Budget 2023 announcement, my department made a provision of €100,000 for the Pandemic Unemployment Payment in 2023.

In line with the Government’s Economic Recovery Plan, Pandemic Unemployment Payments gradually changed over a 6-month period, from September 2021 to February 2022, to align it with standard jobseeker payments.

The Pandemic Unemployment Payment scheme has been closed since April 2022.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.