Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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My next question concerns people paid by the Department of Education, the money is being deducted for tax by the Department and yet they are classed as being self-employed. I am talking about people who provide home tuition. I have raised this on a number of occasions with the Minister in the Dáil and in committee proceedings but we seem to making no progress. These people then have no entitlements in a whole range of areas from pensions to sick leave to maternity leave to holiday pay and they are restricted in what they can when they are not working for the Department so they have difficulty with regard to employment for June, July and August. Can we get that clarified because they are working full time and are being paid by the Department?