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
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I have a couple of questions. On the categorisation of workers, out of the 90 investigated in 2021, there was a 44% level of miscalculation. I understand that those investigations are not blanket but are targeted. The point is that where the Department conducts targeted investigations, the level of miscalculation is quite high.
Presumably, they are classified as self-employed, where it should actually be as employees. I do not want to spend too much time on it. At previous meetings, Mr. McKeon told me that test cases have not been used to categorise for self-employment or employees in different sectors to differentiate. Is that still the case? Does he stand over that?
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