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

Photo of Paul McAuliffePaul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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There is some confusion about the word "test". Case law was mentioned. A number of tests - mixed tests, control tests and so on - have been referenced by various members of our Judiciary and the UK's. Those tests are derivatives of the Department's five categories. However, they are different from test cases. In test cases, one scenario is analysed and then automatically applied to an entire category of workers. Can someone in any type of employment ask the Department of Social Protection for a review of his or her individual circumstances and only those circumstances will be considered for the purpose of that person's claim?