Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Does it include people who are engaged by the State or State bodies to do a lot of work and who earn most of their income from State fees? They might be self-employed. I am thinking of senior counsel who probably work for the Director of Public Prosecutions for practically their entire career. They work in different circuits. Effectively, all of their income is paid out of the public purse. GPs get a substantial amount of their income from the medical card fees but might have private practice. There are different types of hospital consultant contracts. Some consultants are fully contracted to the hospital and have no private work while many of the older consultants have private work. Could Mr. Beausang talk me through the raft of people who earn a large proportion of their moneys working as front-line State officials? Are all these people covered?