More than 283,000 people have received social welfare payments after losing their jobs because of the Coronavirus.
The Department of Social Protection has had 323-thousand individual applications from people who've been made unemployed over the past two weeks.
The government says that's the equivalent of 19 months of social welfare claims in just 14 days.
Liz Canavan, assistant secretary at the Department of the Taoiseach, outlined the figures.
"Over 283,000 payments related to this are being made this week.
"Unemployment payments have been issued, and will be in a bank account or post office accounts tomorrow.
"This represents 90% of the applications received by Thursday 26th of March.
"15,000 applications were deemed ineligible for a variety of reasons."
