Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I think the note says the Department produces statistics on receipts by employee, employer and self-employed. Self-employed PRSI receipts are presumed to be class S receipts. A difficulty here is that the statistics are gathered by Revenue and there are different definitions in use in Revenue and in the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. One has different schedules used and the information that is captured in Revenue is captured on a revenue basis and some of the statistics captured by the Department are using those definitions and some of them are using their own class definitions. There are different schedules in Revenue and different classes in the Department. They are very close but they are not exactly the same thing. I would like all receipts and all individuals to be classified on both bases so that we could get behind the statistics.