Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 December 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports
9:30 am
Mr. Niall Cody:
I absolutely accept the changes in casualisation and the gig economy and the growth in precarious employment, but we are the tax agent, not the employment rights agent. Our obligation is to try to ensure that tax is collected. We are not the deciding agent in regard to somebody's employment status.