Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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194. 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. [16366/17]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The consultation process on "the use of intermediary-type employment structures and self-employment arrangements and their impact on tax and PRSI" invited submissions from interested parties on possible measures to address the loss to the Exchequer that may arise under two sets of arrangements:

- where an individual, who would otherwise be an employee, establishes a company to provide his or her services, and

- 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.

As soon as the report on this process reaches me, and my colleague the Minister for Social Protection, we will consider its contents and then I expect we will publish it.

Therefore I am not yet in a position to give the Deputy an exact date for publication but I am informed that the drafting and editing process, being undertaken by a working group of officials, is now in the final stages.