Stockbroker, media firms, and pubs among firms that tapped expired Covid wage subsidy

Up to 66,500 companies tapped a total of €2.9bn from the now-expired Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme.

Niall Cody, chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, whose list includes the names and addresses of the companies that used the scheme to subsidise the wages of 664,000 employees, but does not detail the amounts individual companies received. File photo: Collins

The publication by Revenue of the 66,500 companies that tapped a total of €2.9bn from the now-expired Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme reveals that some of the country's largest firms required some sort of subsidy to save thousands of jobs during the worst of the Covid-19 crisis. 

The Revenue list includes the names and addresses of the companies that used the scheme to subsidise the wages of 664,000 employees, but does not detail the amounts individual companies received.