Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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180. To ask the Minister for Finance when the results of the consultation process into the impact of bogus self employment arrangements will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40048/16]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy will be aware that earlier this year, she as Minister for Social Protection and I as Minister for Finance launched a consultation process on the use of intermediary-type employment structures and self-employment arrangements, and their impact on tax and PRSI. The consultation invited submissions from interested parties on possible measures to address the loss to the Exchequer that may arise under arrangements (i) where an individual, who would otherwise be an employee, establishes a company to provide his or her services, and (ii) where an individual, who is dependent on, and under the control of, a single employer in the same manner as an employee, is classified as a self-employed individual. Twenty-three submissions were received.

As we discussed during the Finance Bill 2016 debates recently in the Dáil, a report on the consultation is being been finalised by a working group of officials. Once the report has reached me, and my colleague the current Minister for Social Protection, we will consider its contents and then I expect we will publish it. Therefore I cannot give the Deputy an exact date for publication but, as I should receive the draft soon, I would be confident that this will happen in the New Year.