Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Is it envisaged that this provision will apply to individuals or companies? The Minister indicated she wishes to challenge some of the issues concerning false or forced self-employment, whereby companies, following investigation, are determined to have been falsely registering persons as self-employed when they are in fact employees. Does this process relate to such companies?

If a direction is made to take a case to the Circuit Court, how would that work financially, for example, for individuals who may have very low financial resources? Is that feasible? Should they do this without representation? Is it foreseen that this process will give rise to legal aid costs? These are technical questions. I am not necessarily opposed to the principle involved.