Employers who tapped €2.5bn wage subsidy scheme to be named in coming days

Revenue had long said it was not obliged to publish the names of the companies until the TWSS expired. 

Niall Cody, chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, who were administering the TWSS scheme. File picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The Revenue is preparing in the coming days to publish the names and addresses of the 66,500 employers who tapped €2.85bn from the now-expired Covid-19 Temporary Wage Support Scheme, or TWSS, until its replacement by a new scheme, but the amounts individual companies received will not be made public. 

The TWSS scheme was administered by Revenue since it was first rolled out as one of the two main welfare and subsidy schemes by the Government at the onset of the crisis in the spring.