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

I will study the details of the raids made by Revenue's joint investigation units afterwards. Those are interesting facts. I can tell the Minister, however, that the raid which I think was prompted by my question in July on the Dolphin's Barn refurbishment site was a joke. It took place in the canteen. People were invited to come into the canteen rather than officials from Revenue and the Workplace Relations Commission going around the site, grabbing people and asking them for their details. It was a way out of getting to the bottom of what was going on at that site.

Some of the people whose details were taken on that day, who would have been identified as being employed on that site on that day, got notification from Revenue that they started their employment only a month later, even though they had been working on that site for several months, which suggests a significant problem.

It is interesting that the Minister cannot tell whether these are gross or net figures. I put it to him that this is very important because the gross figure in previous years comes down to a net figure of next to nothing when offsets and repayments are taken into account. We need to get the net figure coming in under relevant contracts tax, RCT, after refunds and offsets.

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