Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Revenue Commissioners: Discussion
Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source
I will just finish up. I thank Mr. Cody for those answers on the code of practice. I have a very last question. I might come back in again on the PhD workers as I believe that issue will arise again. Mr. Cody mentioned the actions that are coming following on from the October judgment. With regard to those who have been affected in the past by misclassification, many of them have already gone through processes within Revenue or the Department of Social Protection. Many of them have appealed their misclassification within the social welfare system and so forth. They have almost gone through that process. Is there discussion in Revenue's engagement with those other bodies around a mechanism that would allow those who have been misclassified - the Supreme Court has now ascertained that they were misclassified - to seek remedy or re-classification? They already went through the process. I know some people who fought really hard the whole way along around getting recognised before. Now that the judgment has changed the understanding of the facts, will they be able to have those facts re-examined again in respect of their individual cases? Is that being discussed?
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