Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 December 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes

9:30 am

Mr. John McKeon:

We have done 25,000 investigations into the food sector and the meat processing sector. We came up with fewer than 1% of cases where there was a question of false self-employment. In the construction industry, which is one that is in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, we have reviewed over 6,000 workers and, again, fewer than 1% were involved in false self-employment. They are very definitive figures and are very indicative in two sectors the trade unions tell us are of most concern to them. The level of false self-employment is less than 1% based on those analyses. It is fair to say that is a strong indication-----

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