Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay. It is worth highlighting the issue in the committee given the figures that were received by my colleague, Deputy Doherty, and raising it with the Minister to see if that is something on which he could touch base with the FSPO.

In June last year the Committee of Public Accounts published its examination of the 2019 Appropriation Accounts for Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners. The committee examined Revenue's approach to bogus self-employment which, as the Minister is aware, is a practice whereby a worker is falsely classified as self-employed. The code of conduct for determining the status of an individual as employed or self-employed was published by the employment status group, which sets out the criteria to provide clarity on whether a worker is an employee or self-employed. There is a lot of concern out there. I am sure the Minister is aware of the discussion on bogus self-employment and that it is depriving the State of vast sums of money while reducing the protections and benefits for workers. It is something that has come up a lot more in conversation. Official statistics on the financial impact of bogus self-employment are not available.

Revenue has said it has the power to report on it. Has Deputy Donohoe discussed this issue with Revenue in his time as Minister for Finance and will he direct Revenue to report on the issue and its financial impact on the State?