Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

To go back to the point on PRSI and the self-employed, members may not recall that I produced a chapter on it in 2018. There were a number of recommendations in it that were addressed to the Department of Social Protection. Since the committee will be hearing from representatives of the Department next week, it might be useful if the Department updated the committee on the implementation of those recommendations.

One of the things I drew particular attention to was an examination the Departments of Social Protection and Finance published in 2018 on this whole area of the economic implications of social insurance and self-employment. If an update on the implementation of the recommendations from that were provided by the committee, it would help it to advance a question that members are obviously very interested in. That is all.