Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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307. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons supported by the pandemic unemployment payment, by county, in tabular form. [8029/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) was a social welfare payment for employees and self-employed people who lost their job due to the COVID-19 public health emergency.

In total, 879,772 people received at least one PUP payment. The breakdown by county of these individuals is provided in Table 1 below.

Table 1: PUP recipients, by county