Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would imagine the figure is fairly high. Based on what I can see here, it is mostly very well-paid people who avail of this service. That is the contrast, if I may make one final point. Those employees are very well paid and can establish companies. I will not suggest why it is attractive to set up those companies; people can make up their own minds and then there are others who claim they are on bogus self-employment contracts.

Ms Forbes mentioned the employment practices in RTÉ earlier. Gender was one of the issues, as Ms Forbes knows herself, that is being addressed, which I welcome. RTÉ has a long way to go on that issue. There also seems to be an issue here with bogus self-employment. I have a difficulty with people on six-figure salaries not paying full taxes if that is the case. There is a lot of work to be done in those areas. RTÉ gets very substantial taxpayers' money and, as Mr. Boucher-Hayes says, it has a special responsibility to make sure that the employment practices are what they should be.

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