Last week, I asked the Taoiseach to reopen applications for the PUP for those hit by the new public health measures and he declined to commit to that. Over the weekend, the work available to taxi drivers has gone over a cliff because of the night-time curfews and people pulling back and listening to the public health advice. Offices not going into work on Monday has further decimated the taxi industry. It needs access to the PUP. The same goes for those in the night-time economy and the musicians and entertainers who have been hit the worst again and again. If a bit of solidarity is being shown, they need to be given access to the PUP to sustain them through the coming period. I appeal to the Taoiseach to reopen applications for these affected cohorts for the PUP.

The Government has decided to keep everything under review but I will make a point in respect of pandemic unemployment payments. Taking the hospitality sector, for example, there has been a consistent response from that sector, as well as from retail, that it is finding it difficult to fill vacancies. One would like to think that notwithstanding the impact of the measures we took last week in terms of hospitality-----

So what, musicians should get a job in a bar. Is that it?

I did not say that. I ask the Deputy not to put words in my mouth and to let me finish. I am just talking about hospitality workers for the hospitality sector, in that there should be an absorption capacity within the totality of hospitality to deal with anybody in that sector who may be looking for work. In terms of bespoke areas, we have provided supports for the entertainment and music sector and will continue to look at bespoke ways to help specific groups that may be affected. However, schemes such as PUP and EWSS are broad-based. They include everybody and the same responses necessitated at the beginning, may not be necessities this time.