Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am asking you to give an answer on this and maybe I am not putting it clearly enough. If the workers in that sector were employees as opposed to being grouped together and counted as self-employed from 1997 up to the discontinuation of the scheme, there is a huge differential there in PRSI contributions to the State. I ask for a "Yes" or "No" answer. Has Revenue done a calculation of the loss to the State over that period? If the workers were treated as employees, what would the PRSI gain from that at the beginning, as opposed to the PRSI gained because of the classification as self-employed? That is the question. It is a "Yes" or "No". I am not locking into an argument over it. I am asking the question.