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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, April 11, 2022

QUESTION NO. 10

QUESTION: Councillor M. Johansson

To ask the Chief Executive if any inspections by SDCC have taken place to ensure adherence to employment laws following on the passing of Motion 2 (Item ID: 73452) in January 2022, or if no inspections have taken place to report on actions taken to implement the motion?

REPLY:

Rather than requesting the Council to carry out inspections, the motion referred to sought to have the Council enter into an agreement with a Trade Union regarding a system of employment compliant inspections on all construction sites where SDCC have contracted out works. The Council were advised that this motion was not implementable as it was asking the executive to operate outside of our remit as the main contractor in public works contracts. The motion was subsenquently amended at the January Council meeting to include “this Council will write to the Workplace Relations Commission, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Revenue Commissioners asking them to police the issue of bogus self-employment on Local Authority projects".

Correspondence was duly issued to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Revenue Commissioners as agreed. To date a reply has been received from the Revenue Commissioners which has been circulated to all members.