Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

When the Secretary General was here last week, he talked about the scale of what I was suggesting. There might have been a bit of a misunderstanding on the Department's part. Specifically, my suggestion related to the cohort that are registered in class S because if there is misclassification, they would be in class S when they should be in class A. That is where the risk is greatest. What I was talking about was a sample being taken of class S and testing comprehensively whether those people were correctly and appropriately in class S. I was not suggesting that we draw samples across the whole spectrum of people in employment to see whether they are in the right place. The economic risk is that people would be in class when they should be in class A. That is where the testing would need to be focused. He also mentioned a sample of about 15,000. I would be talking about significantly lower figures, in the hundreds rather than the thousands.