Taoiseach tells Dáil Covid-19 may have been in Ireland last year as he extends €350 payment

The €350-a-week emergency Covid payment is set to be extended beyond mid-June when it was originally meant to cease, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has told the Dáil.

The Taoiseach said we came back from the last economic crisis and we will do so again before adding that Covid-19 could have been in Ireland as early as late last year or early January this year.