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

We will request information on whether there was any benefit to those individuals and also whether the State receives any benefit from this.

The next category of correspondence is category C, which is correspondence from and related to private individuals and any other correspondence. No. 1516C is from an individual and is dated 16 October 2022. It is further correspondence to the committee regarding the social welfare appeals office and requests that the committee take further action as regards the further classification of certain workers. The issues raised have been considered by the committee and the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands. We have also provided the correspondent with a copy of our report on the classification of workers, whether employees, employers or contractors, as well as related correspondence. We have advised that we will examine the Comptroller and Auditor General's chapter on the classification of workers for PRSI purposes with the Department of Social Protection. That meeting is scheduled for 1 December. I am open to members' suggestions. I propose that we note the correspondence and proceed to examine the chapter in due course.