Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 January 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund
9:30 am
Mr. John McKeon:
When we looked at the construction industry, we looked at those as well. Most self-employed people in the construction sector have workers. If I am self-employed and I have two or three workers, I am obviously self-employed. We looked at own-account self-employed workers, many of whom are brickies, plumbers and carpenters, etc., who do not just work on one site for one contractor but across a number of sites for multiple contractors. All the evidence is that they are self-employed.
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