Covid-19 action plan will cost the country €2bn, Cabinet told

The Cabinet has heard that Ireland’s Covid-19 action plan will cost around €2bn.

Finance minister Paschal Donohoe told his colleagues yesterday that over 500,000 people in Ireland were in receipt of the Unemployment Benefit, almost 10,000 in receipt of illness benefit, and almost 40,000 businesses registered with Revenue for the Wage Subsidy Scheme.

The total additional health spend, including the further funding required for the Covid-19 National Action Plan, will amount to up to €2bn.