Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Tim Duggan:

First, I mentioned in my opening statement how we are endeavouring to develop new legislation to provide for people to take cases to the WRC, where they feel they are being victimised. We intend to progress that. There are some small difficulties with it, as the Senator highlighted earlier, but we are seeking to address them. That is definitively on the roadmap to progress that early in the new year. We hope that will be immensely helpful for anyone who is in fear of making a request for a determination to the scope section.

We have also done some communications exercises in the past and we intend to repeat those. We will specifically be highlighting that particular aspect and trying to give people assurance that they will be protected through these new legislative measures that we intend to bring in. We hope the combination of the two of those will help people to feel more assured that they will be protected in the event that they seek a determination.

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