Enacted 14/2020
Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020
- Introduced
- 20 Jul 2020
- Last updated
- 17 Aug 2020
Plain-English summary AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Creates new Covid-19 welfare benefit to help people affected by pandemic economic impacts.
- Amends Social Welfare Acts to treat certain Covid-19 payments as paid social insurance contributions.
- Provides related support measures; enacted to address disease spread economic effects.
Stage timeline
- First Stage 33rd Dáil20 Jul 2020
- Second Stage 33rd Dáil28 Jul 2020
- Committee Stage 33rd Dáil28 Jul 2020
- Report Stage 33rd Dáil28 Jul 2020
- Fifth Stage 33rd Dáil28 Jul 2020
- Second Stage 26th Seanad29 Jul 2020
- Committee Stage 26th Seanad29 Jul 2020
- Report Stage 26th Seanad29 Jul 2020
- Fifth Stage 26th Seanad29 Jul 2020
- Enacted5 Aug 2020