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:

I do not know if I would go that far. Revenue would have to comment on that particular example. Each of the agencies has the five factors and each of us apply the five factors. One would expect that we would come to the same conclusions when applying the same factors. Revenue are not so much classifying people as self-employed or employed and deciding whether to put them on the Schedule E system or the Schedule B system. In some they put people onto Schedule E for convenience purposes and, for example, office holders-----

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