BUSINESS GROUP LOBBIES TDs OVER COVID LOCKDOWN

Business group ISME is calling for alternative ways of dealing with Covid-19 to be implemented, rather than a national lockdown.

The group has written to the five Wexford TDs to use their position in Dail Eireann to ensure that the government responds in a more strategic manner. It says it can no longer tolerate a situation where the State's only response to Covid-19 is to repeatedly furlough tens of thousands of workers. However one Enniscorthy business woman says there is a bigger issue looming for businesses as a result of measures introduced to deal with covid 19 Lindsay O'Donoghue from Omni HR and Marketing  says its the current rate of covid welfare payments [clip]