Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The Data Protection Commission ran an investigation into this matter. It would be important to have the Department before us again. I hope that would be early next year, given that our timetable is full to the end of this year. The assessment is one of the issues that it would be important for us to discuss.

I am straying into our timetable, but there has also been a significant Supreme Court case that affects the Social Insurance Fund. This matter relates to RTÉ and reviews by the scope section. The Supreme Court case had to do with Domino’s Pizza and whether people were contracted. In our report of June 2021, we recommended that the Revenue Commissioners take a series of actions to combat the activity known as bogus self-employment, including an independent investigation into the financial and sectoral implications of an agreement signed between Revenue and the courier sector in 1997. Following what was a significant court case, it would be useful for us to have the Revenue Commissioners appear before us at the same time as the Department of Social Protection so that we might address the issue. I formally propose that we do so.