Gerald Nash (Labour) | Oireachtas source

We know this from our day-to-day work and various commentary. It is important that people have their employment status determined in an efficacious way. I mean no disrespect to the Department's scope section, but that is not happening in a timely and efficient way. People have contacted me in recent weeks who claim to have worked with the scope section for a number of years to get determinations, appeals and so on. That is not good enough. People need clarity and a renewed focus if we are serious, not only about avoiding the race to the bottom, but about ensuring that our Social Insurance Fund is properly resourced and those who are required to pay into it are not defrauding the State in the way they are currently.