Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA

2:20 pm

Mr. Denis Dolan:

I concur with Deputy Butler. We are speaking predominantly about businesses employing one and two people. It is important that distinction is made. A system akin to that introduced in the UK would work. We replicate so many of the laws and so on introduced in the UK. The introduction here of a system similar to that being introduced in the UK would in my view appear to be a logical starting point.