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

I have heard that a number of people are having difficulty getting people back to work but I believe the majority want to go back to work. There is a support line for employers if they need assistance with difficulties they might face in getting staff. We want to help people retrain, reskill and find the jobs that are out there. Some will not go back to their old jobs so we want to help them. There are job activation measures in place and I will deal with that in the coming weeks as the economy continues to open.
Our ICT systems are fully operational and additional cybersecurity measures were put in place over the weekend as an act of caution following the HSE incident. My Department works hard to make sure we have the right firewalls in place. We have a lot of data and we want to protect it.

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Sitting date: 2021-05-18