Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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72. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of settlements that have been made to the Revenue Commissioners by companies or employers due to bogus self-employment and unpaid PRSI in each of the years 2015 to 2020. [31499/21]

Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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85. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of inspections of bogus self-employment carried out by the Revenue Commissioners excluding the construction sector in each of the years 2015 to 2020. [31500/21]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 72 and 85 together.

I am advised by Revenue that the overall additional tax, including interest and penalties, collected each year during the period 2015 to 2020 through non-compliance intervention programmes, ranged from €487 million to €643 million, of which an average of almost €87 million per year related to additional payroll taxes. Revenue records are not maintained in a manner that allows the amount of additional payroll tax that was directly attributed to bogus self-employment and unpaid PRSI to be separately extrapolated.

Revenue has also advised me that it carried out over 16,500 onsite inspections across multiple business sectors, excluding the construction sector, in the years 2015 to 2020, as part of its wider compliance intervention programmes. These cases were selected based on risk criteria, with some interventions conducted on a multi-agency basis, including officials from the Department of Social Protection (DSP) and the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).