Ms Jean Winters:

My colleague, Mr. O'Connell, has given an outline of the structure of the industry. There has been a lot of discussion at this meeting about the official figures, 31,900 self-employed without employees, but the industry is based on a system of contracting and sub-contracting. Just because approximately 20% of the overall workforce is categorised as self-employed without employees does not mean that is bogus self-employment.