Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I understand from the Minister, Deputy Regina Doherty, that the report will be published in the near future although I do not have an exact date for it. It indicates that bogus self-employment is a real issue but perhaps not on the scale that people may have previously thought. That, of course, is evidenced by the fact the number of people in self-employment has not increased dramatically but has increased in line with general employment, so the view that a huge number of people are being pushed into self-employment is not supported by the statistics. That is not to say it does not happen on occasion.

To respond to something else the Deputy said, I do not agree with him that an increase in capital investment is solely good for the construction industry. Let us not forget what that increase in capital investment is - it is more schools for kids to go to, more hospitals for patients to use and more roads to get us to work and to home. I am disappointed that a Deputy of this House should be pejorative about capital investment in that way.

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