DON'T BANK ON THREE NEW €3.4BN HOLIDAYS

Coveney reveals cost of days off

- LOUISE BURNE

THREE new bank holidays would cost the State up to €3.4billion, Simon Coveney claimed yesterday.

The Enterprise, Trade and Employment Minister also confirmed his officials and those at the Department of Social Protection are carrying out studies to include "a fuller assessment of the impact" an additional public holiday would have.

The information was released to People Before Profit's Richard Boyd Barrett following a parliamentary question.

The party launched a Bill in January proposing three new Bank Holidays.

This would have included February 1, the last Monday in September and the last Monday in November.