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

I thank Mr. Cody for that figure. Turning to the self-employment rates in different sectors, what was particularly interesting here were those people self-employed and without employees. I understand that, for example, many plumbers will not have an employee. It will be the same with many IT engineers. Equally, and typically, a high number of self-employed people in agriculture, such as farmers, will not have employees. In construction, though, 30% of people were self-employed. Of these, however, two thirds, or some 20% of the overall number employed in the construction sector, are self-employed and without employees. This is a high figure.