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 looked at the UK system. It is basically a self-completed questionnaire on a website which provides a calculation of the probability that a respondent is self-employed or is an employee. We have taken a different approach. That is not to say we will not move to the UK approach. The approach we have taken is to work with the social partners in developing the code of practice, publishing it, identifying the five factors that have emerged through case law and publishing that. We have also undertaken a media and advertising campaign encouraging people to come to us. We provide a service that is not provided in the UK, that is, the scope service. That service is not available in the UK. We provide that service. It allows people to come to us and ask for a determination.

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