Covid-19 support scheme not entirely what pandemic-hit businesses had hoped for 

Any business wishing to claim the Covid restrictions support scheme needs to know about the caveats, writes Brian Keegan.

Brian Keegan is the director of public policy at  Chartered Accountants Ireland

There are two possible, and equally legitimate, attitudes to providing business supports as we cope with the pandemic.

The first is for the Government to pump money into the economy to keep it in a form of suspended animation until everything gets back to normal, or as close to like it was as recently as February of this year. That approach envisages that either a safe and successful vaccine becomes widely available or a safe and effective cure for Covid-19 becomes available in relatively short order.