Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The root of this is the definition of what a worker is. It is people who sell their labour or who own their labour and use it for their own benefit because self-employment would imply that people are doing it for themselves. When they are selling their labour, they are creating wealth and profit and doing things for somebody else, namely, the employer. We need to look at how we define what a worker is in all of this because people who are defined as self-employed are clearly not. People on building sites, delivering food or driving public transport for various companies are clearly not self-employed and are clearly generating revenue and profit for others. That needs to be challenged at a definition level.