Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

From the point of view of someone who has been involved in advocating on behalf of workers who felt that they were bogusly self-employed in a number of industries, the ruling and criteria sound like a move that would be favourable to them. Does the worker have to assert his or her employment status in order to have it vindicated or are there simple objective criteria and, if someone fits them, he or she is an employee regardless of what he or she wants to be? Could the person be told he or she had better want to be an employee, otherwise he or she will not get a job? That is a widespread phenomenon, let us put it that way. Does Mr. Cody know what I mean?