35,000 who had been receiving Pandemic Unemployment Payment returned to work last week

Some 35,000 people who had been receiving the Pandemic Unemployment Payment returned to work last week as the first phase of the country's plan to reopen its economy began.

Assistant Secretary General at the Department of Taoiseach Liz Canavan said that while 579,000 people remain on the €350 per-week payment introduced at the beginning of the outbreak, 35,900 returned to work in the last week.