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

There are many things that could be done, but I would like to focus on one of them in the short amount of time available to me. It would help if we had a clear register of the employees in the film industry. If the various stakeholders had to provide a list of the people in the industry, it would help us to ascertain the level of direct PAYE employment, as opposed to contractor employment, to determine whether there is evidence of bogus self-employment, to establish whether the trainee system is being abused, and to assess whether too many trainees are being taken on to avoid employing and paying qualified people. A register would help us to get the sort the information needed for a proper appraisal of the extent of quality employment and possible abuses in this area. I suggest we also need to examine the extent to which the certification process is looking under the surface of the different applications for the review under the different headings.

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