Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 December 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes
9:30 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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The Department can make a determination. Revenue can make a determination as to whether somebody is employed or self-employed. The Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, can also make such a determination. Is there a pecking order involved? What happens if there are two or three different definitions? What is the pecking order? Which is the superior decision-maker?