Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to prolong discussion but there is a view emerging on the committee that we should raise this. There are questions for Revenue on the misuse of RCT1s where people are being forced into a position to identify themselves as self-employed or sole traders when in fact they are nothing of the sort. It seems the whole thing is hugely exploitative and it involves a number of State agencies. Certainly for my party the objective of this exercise would not be to put boards of management of schools in a pressurised position. That is not the issue. Even outside the construction of school buildings, there is a more generalised issue around the capital programme and practices in terms of sourcing, seeking and achieving Government contracts. It is very serious. It would be most helpful if the clerk were to take on that piece of work to figure out in an orderly way how we would go about investigating it.