Taoiseach warns pandemic payments will stop for anyone who refuses to take job back

The Taoiseach said the temporary wage subsidy ‘can’t last forever’.

People will lose their eligibility for the Covid-19 pandemic payments if they are offered their job back and refuse to accept it, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.

A series of payments were introduced by the Government in March after businesses were forced to shut their doors as Covid-19 spread across the country.