Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
Dail Éireann — 2021-05-18
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Heather Humphreys (FG), Cavan-Monaghan

Those who are on the PUP continue to be on it and, as I said, it remains open to new entrants until the end of June. Recipients know that if they are on the PUP, they will continue on that payment. The Government has not been found wanting in supporting people during this pandemic. Over €7.6 billion has been spent on the PUP to date, over 23 million individual payments have been issued, more than 850,000 people have received support under the scheme, and staff in my Department have answered over 10 million phone calls in the past year. I am discussing the future of the PUP with my Government colleagues and we hope to be in a position to make an announcement in that regard in early June. The Government has not been and will not be found wanting.

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Sitting date: 2021-05-18