Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In terms of collaboration with Revenue and the Department of Social Protection, I assure the Deputy that does happen. On 11 July, I chaired a meeting with officials from the Department of Social Protection and Revenue looking at the issue the Deputy described and the determination of the employment status working group. The working group had been set up on foot of the Supreme Court ruling on the Domino’s case and we have been working with the Department of Social Protection and Revenue to put forward changes to the code of practice to better inform employers of their obligations in this new context. There will be new tests for the appropriateness of self-employed versus PAYE status. We need to work with both the Department of Social Protection and Revenue to make sure, first, that employers understand their obligations, and we had a meeting to that effect on 11 July. As a result of that, there will be a new code of practice, which needs to be shared with relevant stakeholders and communicated out. Once it is in practice, we will absolutely need to look at how we can ensure everybody is compliant with it.