Nicola Sturgeon was urged to "bring back the fun" to Scotland by helping carnival operators make a living during the pandemic.
Scotland's travelling funfair operators have not been able to earn a living since March and might not be able to run local fairs for another three months, an MSP warned.
Richard Lyle, an SNP backbencher, raised their plight at First Minister’s Questions in Holyrood on Wednesday.
He said the Covid-19 restrictions mean they cannot access funding because of loopholes in the small business bonus fund or because they don't have business bank accounts.
Lyle said: "Both of those facts have ensured that their applications have been refused - that has been confirmed to me by the agencies that operate the funds."
In parliament, Lyle continued: "Will the Scottish Government review those conditions in order that showpeople may access funding to survive and bring back the fun to Scotland?"
Lyle has a long campaigning history with the travelling funfair community. Before lockdown, he was trying to get Scotland's 32 local authorities to relax what he called an unfair charging regime.
Holyrood already has a Scottish Showmen's Guild cross-party group to look at their interests.
Sturgeon said: "I am all for bringing back fun, in whatever way we can get it, but I am not going to give a commitment to retrospectively change the conditions on funds that have already been disbursed.
"As we put in place any new support, we will look at the representations that Richard Lyle has made.
"We know that it is important that funfairs are able to operate again as quickly as it is safe for them to do so."
