When Is the Government Meeting Again
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the Government will look on making any conclusion on cut the Pandemic Unemployment Payment scheme until information technology is discussed at a Chiffonier subcommittee meeting on Mon.
Mr Martin's comments come amid growing concerns most a new Covid-nineteen wave as case numbers and hospitalisations go on to ascent.
Mr Martin said the Government had been determined throughout the Covid-nineteen pandemic to go on the economy intact and ready to reopen and such preparations had proven successful in terms of the way the economy bounced back after lockdown earlier this year.
Earlier this week on Tuesday, Mr Martin told Dáil Éireann that in that location were no plans to reopen the PUP or to filibuster planned cuts to the payment which would come across those receiving €300 a week take their payment cut to €250 and those on €250 see their payments cutting to €203.
But speaking on Saturday, Mr Martin was more circumspect and said the issue would be considered on Mon in the wake of growing Covid xix numbers and the introduction of restrictions on nightclubs and confined.
He said the issue of proceeding with the cuts to the PUP would exist considered at an Economical Recovery Cabinet Subcommittee meeting on Mon as the government was conscious of the impact the latest restrictions were having particularly on the entertainment and hospitality sectors.
Hospital Report
| Confirmed cases in hospital | Confirmed cases in ICU |
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| i,333 | 58 |
"We have an Economic Recovery Cabinet sub-committee meeting on Monday ... Yep, will exist giving that consideration and besides in terms of the entertainment sector … We take got to explore how we can continue to back up sectors that are undoubted suffering as a effect of the pandemic."
Falling figures
According to the well-nigh recent figures from the Department of Social Protection from Nov 4th, the number of people receiving PUP payments had fallen to just under 78,000 with the payments for that week totalling €20.vii million to bring the full amount paid in PUP to €8.9 billion.
Asked about reports that some nightclubs were opening as early as 6pm as a ways of compensating for loss of business concern resulting from the 12 midnight closing restriction imposed by the Government, Mr Martin declined to comment specifically on the nightclub sector.
"I'm not going to become specifically on whatever one particular sector or group. There'south a framework in place but it is very important that people reassess events and so along and reduce congregation and socialisation where possible," he said.
Mr Martin as well refused to be drawn on whether Ireland will introduce a curfew similar some other European countries have done while he was also bang-up to stress that Ireland constitute itself in a different state of affairs to that when lockdowns were introduced earlier this year amongst rising Covid-19 numbers.
"I think again, because nosotros are in a different wave of this pandemic, we've got to wait at what are the appropriate and constructive measures to accept – already in terms of the return to work, we think that volition take impact," he told reporters.
Working from home
Mr Martin said he was confident from speaking with the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet), who had received enquiry from the Science Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) in the UK that working from habitation tin impact on Covid-xix numbers while restricting close household contacts for five days should also help.
Asked if he feared Ireland might exist forced into a Christmas lockdown to try and keep Covid-xix numbers down, Mr Martin once again struck a cautious note proverb the authorities approach was "not almost any one particular time of the twelvemonth" merely dealing with each wave of the disease at information technology happens.
"We've got to look at the overall picture and the overall objectives about managing a pandemic and they take to do with mortality, keeping deaths down, reducing severe affliction, and preventing long term impacts like long Covid and that means reducing instance numbers – that'due south the objective.
"And if there was a wave in January or February we'll equally accept to respond so that's the overall frame there. We've got to take it stride past stride … and we will take the advisable measures - public health is the ultimate metric by which nosotros will take decisions protecting people's lives."
Source: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/government-will-wait-on-pup-cuts-decision-until-cabinet-meeting-martin-1.4734551
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