The Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) is now paid at three rates. Age and sex breakdowns at the payable PUP rates are published each week at https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/f4c60c-covid-19-statistics/ . The breakdown by sector is provided in the table below. The Deputy should note that the sector breakdowns are based on the sector of the last known employer and may not reflect the current sector of self-employed PUP recipients.
Table 1: PUP recipients by rate payable week ending 26th September 2020
Sector
|
€203
|
€250
|
€300
|
A Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing
|
732
|
452
|
1,496
|
B Mining and Quarrying
|
27
|
15
|
138
|
C Manufacturing
|
1,793
|
1,409
|
8,473
|
D Electricity, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply
|
40
|
28
|
140
|
E Water Supply; Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation activities
|
86
|
62
|
514
|
F Construction
|
2,621
|
2,003
|
11,512
|
G Wholesale and Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles
|
6,964
|
6,178
|
17,333
|
H Transport and Storage
|
1,253
|
1,200
|
5,425
|
I Accommodation and Food service activities
|
10,705
|
9,512
|
24,683
|
J Information and Communication activities
|
1,207
|
771
|
3,961
|
K Financial and Insurance activities
|
1,360
|
827
|
3,158
|
L Real Estate activities
|
732
|
590
|
1,864
|
M Professional, Scientific and Technical activities
|
1,989
|
1,427
|
7,610
|
N Administrative and Support service activities
|
4,386
|
3,502
|
14,910
|
O Public Administration and Defense; Compulsory Social Security
|
1,344
|
730
|
2,277
|
P Education
|
2,654
|
1,789
|
5,227
|
Q Human Health and Social Work activities
|
2,106
|
1,618
|
4,201
|
R Arts, Entertainment and Recreation
|
1,885
|
1,130
|
2,807
|
S Other service activities
|
2,204
|
1,602
|
3,733
|
T Activities of Households as Employers
|
559
|
322
|
899
|
U Activities of Extra-territorial Organizations and Bodies
|
2
|
0
|
3
|
Unclassified or Unknown
|
3,804
|
840
|
1,517
|
Total
|
48,453
|
36,007
|
121,881
|