Ms Jo Mangan:

The notion of collective bargaining is fascinating. We are of a disparate nature, although, as the Senator indicated, there are similarities between the individuals, speaking on behalf of people who are not here. In addition, we are structured in a silo fashion in terms of how we interact with our funding bodies, for example. We are structured to interact as festivals, films, visual artists or whatever. We tend to organise around our little silos. I will take the blame for the sector in that we are not collectively organised in that regard and we cannot speak cohesively as a whole all the time.

The concept of penury has been much mentioned around the table today.

Many people do not have the capacity to invest time in the voluntary work all of us - and the many people working behind us - are doing by being here today.