Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Ruth Coppinger, who raised a similar issue today, and a number of other Members, including me, have for years been receiving allegations from construction workers, particularly bricklayers, plasterers and labourers, that there is widespread tax fraud taking place on building sites. Contractors and developers are abusing the so-called RCT 1 system by misclassifying people as "self-employed" when they are not in order to evade tax responsibilities and to underpay those workers. The ruling of the Labour Court in the JJ Rhatigan case, where workers were paid €100,000 to basically get lost, suggests that this is happening, and continues to happen, on other sites which I will mention in a minute.

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