Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise the issue of home tutors. I acted as a home tutor many years ago to a child with a cancer diagnosis. I believe there are approximately 1,400 home tutors working in the system nationally, many of them part-time, supplementing their hours and affiliated with schools. There are some who are working full-time. They are qualified teachers who are registered with the Teaching Council, but many of them have received letters from Revenue in recent weeks saying that they need to de-register as self-employed. This poses them difficult questions. Who will become their employer? Will they get the same conditions, pension entitlements and so on as mainstream teachers? There are turbulent waters ahead for them. They have the same experience and qualifications as other teachers and each tutor’s payslip has on it a school roll number and the previous school to which he or she was affiliated. Who becomes their employer if they are not self-employed?

See this speech in context