Mr. John McKeon:

The issue, Chair, is that at an aggregate level, there is no real evidence that, for example, the level of own accounts self-employment, which is the type of self-employment which might be prone to this phenomenon, is growing. In fact it is reducing. At an aggregate level, incidences of this would appear to be reducing.

On the other hand, and it is something I often say, for example, when we talk about poverty or unemployment rates, and when we say that we are at full employment and there is only 4% on the live register. However, if a person is unemployed, that is a 100% experience. For the person who, therefore, is misclassified, even if it is a low percentage of misclassification, for that person, and this point was raised by Deputy Verona Murphy, it is a significant condition so I am not as solid on that.