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

No, I want the Minister to take responsibility for tax fraud. The allegations are that this is rampant in the construction industry and on sites involving big public contracts. We saw this happen in Rhatigan's and it had to pay €100,000. Did it have to pay it because everything was squeaky clean? No, it was because it was abusing the system. This is tax fraud. It is a crime. If contractors and subcontractors are misclassifying people as being self-employed when in fact they are employing those people directly, that is the business of Revenue and it is the business of the Government, collectively, to ensure inspections take place. I mentioned two sites. The inspectors need to be sent to those sites now. This practice is going on as we speak at the Gannon Homes site in Swords, a former NAMA site, and at the Robswall site in Malahide. Rhatigan's, which, as we know, was involved in such practice arising from the dispute in Kishoge, also has four or five other sites where it is currently building schools. This practice is rampant and the result is that €167 million was deducted last year in RCT but €139 million was given back. Therefore, only €27 million in being collected in tax from 63,000 employees. It is an absolute joke.

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