Together with the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) and the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS), a key financial support during the pandemic period for affected business was the Covid Restrictions Support Scheme (“CRSS”) which delivered a sales-based payment to qualifying businesses of up to 10 per cent of turnover to compensate them for having to stay closed during the lockdown periods. When the scheme finished in January of this year, Revenue published the names of all the 25,302 business who availed of it during its operation from October 2020. Recipients included pubs and restaurants as well as a variety of retail…

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