According to the Department of Social Protection and the Revenue Commissioners, the man is not a Deliveroo cyclist. He is self-employed.

Deliveroo hold no responsibility whatsoever for the worker. https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1301115935026282497

The agreement made between Revenue, Social Protection and Employers to label all deliver/courier workers as self employed was made in 1998. The Revenue Commissioners claim this was done in the name of 'Uniformity'.

There is no law to allow this, in fact, it is UNLAWFUL.

The DEASP claims that Deliveroo riders agreed to be called self-employed back in 1995, before deliveroo existed, before workers were born, according to the DEASP, delivery/courier workers are 'Happy' to be self-employed because of a 1995 test case they know nothing about