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

Nonetheless, €214 million is a significant shortfall, with €51 million of that from income tax. I particularly want to concentrate on the issue of precarious working conditions and, specifically bogus self-employment. There are now approximately 140,000 people working in construction. There is talk about how construction work is gathering momentum. I got another call in a series of phone calls I have had over recent years from building workers about the regeneration of Dolphin House and Fatima Mansions. Purcell Construction is the main developer down there. Rapid Developments is the bricklaying subcontractor. This is a firm that has had a lot of State contracts. It built St. Patrick's College in Maynooth and there were similar issues there. It is very similar to Rhatigans in that it has men taken on seven or eight weeks beforehand who are employed on PAYE but have not heard a word from Revenue. When they telephone Revenue to ask if they are in the system, Revenue states that it has not heard a thing about it. This is still rampant in the construction sector. If it was done properly and if they were on PAYE, the State would be getting very significant extra income tax revenues.

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