It would cost the State up to €3.4bn to introduce three new bank holidays, Enterprise Minister Simon Coveney has said.
The Minister also confirmed that the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Department of Social Protection are carrying out studies that include “a fuller assessment of the impact” that introducing an additional public holiday in Ireland would have.
The information was released to People Before Profit’s Richard Boyd Barrett following a parliamentary question to the Enterprise Minister.
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