Covid-19 Pandemic Supports Dail Éireann — 2022-02-22 ============================================================ Paschal Donohoe (FG), Dublin Central The total cost of the temporary wage subsidy scheme, TWSS, and employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS, was €10.26 billion. The schemes have played a role in protecting the jobs of up to 690,000 people in our country. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2022-02-22/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:50:09+00:00 Sitting date: 2022-02-22