Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have raised this matter previously and I raise it again. It is about the problems being encountered by teachers who provide home tuition because they are treated as self-employed by the Department. Even though the Department pays them, it deducts the tax. They are in category S in relation to PRSI and they have very little access to other services. They do not get paid during the summer months yet they are not allowed to enter into arrangements to provide tuition during the summer months. These people are not subcontractors; they are employees of the Department. We have already seen a number of State organisations getting caught over the fact that they were treating people as subcontractors who should have been treated as employees. Those who are providing home tuition are regulated. They cannot do any more hours than any teacher in a school can do and they have the same regulations. Therefore, they should be treated as employees.

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