Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I take this opportunity to ask the Minister a question I raised with him and his predecessors previously. As Minister for Social Protection, I commissioned a study and review which was to be carried out between the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Finance. I cannot for the life of me understand, unless this has been released yesterday or today, why that study has never been published given that it has been available for possibly up to a year. The report was based on submissions, including very detailed submissions by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. If we had the information that is held in that report, we could perhaps identify a way of moving forward in regard to this very difficult issue for workers who are forced to become self-employed when, in fact, they are traditional employees.

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