Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-05-20
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Regina Doherty

There are two schemes specifically for artists. Thankfully this House introduced jobseeker's benefit for the self-employed only last November. It did not exist previously and it would have cut out a large cohort of people from the pandemic payment otherwise. There is a jobseeker's payment for artists that allows them to continue to try to ply their trade and make money from it without having to be fully available to be employed in another sector. The Minister, Deputy Madigan, and I are examining whether we can expand that.

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Sitting date: 2020-05-20