The Central Statistics Office has found that a majority of companies have continued to trade through the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the second of the CSO's new Covid-19 business surveys, conducted in the week beginning May 3, 76% of companies which responded said they were continuing to trade.
But 23.9% indicated they had ceased trading either temporarily or permanently.
The percentage of construction companies which had ceased trading was higher at 66.7% while the percentage of firms in the accommodation and food sector was 69.1%.
This compares with just 8.7% in the information and communications sector and 14.5% for companies engaged in industry.
An average of just over 70% of companies reported lower than normal sales. Exports sales fell for 53.8% of companies but 37.7% said their exports were unaffected.
The CSO also said that a majority of firms found that the price of supplies and sales had not changed more than normal.
A third of companies said they had let workers go temporarily, while 36.7% reported staff working on fewer hours.
A further 23% said they had cancelled or delayed recruitment plans, while 21.2% reported no change to their workforce or hours worked.
Meanwhile, a third of companies surveyed said lower productivity was having a high impact on business.
53.2% of businesses have implemented some social distancing measures. This increases to 77.4% of manufacturing companies.
Today's figures show that 70% of companies now have some arrangements for remote working. However, only 30.5% of companies have the majority of their employees working remotely.
Just over half - 53.5% -, of businesses said cashflow difficulties were having a moderate or high impact on their business, rising to 90.5% of in the food and accommodation sector.
However, 68.1% reported no change in their ability to access finance.
Just under half said they were confident they had the financial resources to continue to operate longer than six months.
