Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion

10:00 am

Ms Patricia Murphy:

We cover all those as we have inspectors, a special investigation unit and a joint investigation unit working with the Revenue Commissioners and the Workplace Relations Commission inspectors. We have not been keeping specific statistics on bogus or false self-employment. Our operation is being built and developed and we are operating on the information that we receive. As we are building our information, both general inspections and the targeted inspections are being used. I commented at the end on where we stand at this moment. Statistics indicate that self-employment is generally decreasing slightly over a period. There appear to be pockets or areas on which we need to focus and sectors that need to be targeted.

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