asked the Minister for Social Welfare if warble fly eradicators are insurable under the Social Welfare Acts.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Insurance of Warable Fly Eradicators.
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When warable fly eradicators are employed under a contract of service and are aged between 16 and 70, their employment is insurable under the Social Welfare Acts. Where any question arises as to whether a contract of service exists in any particular case it is a matter for decision by a deciding officer, or, in the event of any appeal against his decision, by an appeals officer.
There are a number of appeals in the Minister's Department at the moment awaiting decision. Has the Minister given any decision?
I am not aware of any appeals.
The appeals have been sent to the Department and the Department of Agriculture.
Am I not right in saying that warble fly inspectors have been floating about this country for about a quarter of a century?
These are different people.
These are new warable fly inspectors? I thought they were the old Fianna Fáil cumann secretaries?
We got rid of the warble fly, which the Deputy did not.
(Interruptions.)
These are described as warable fly eradicators.