Ms Katherine Licken:

I do not think it was my phone.

We hope to go to tender shortly on that. The regional workshops will involve working with the Arts Council to figure out how best to do that, and will probably be informed by what we do with the bodies under the aegis of the Department.

We had a meeting with the eight leaders from the theatre sector. We have further work to do. It was discussed with Irish Equity yesterday, with the Minister, and we are still talking to the Arts Council and the Irish Theatre Institute about how best to do something on this. A bottom up and top down approach is very appropriate here. We should actually ask the people on the ground what they think and what would work for them as opposed to assuming that we know what will work for them. We have not worked through the full details of this initiative yet. We are still talking about it and it needs time so that it is done right, but it might be a useful opportunity for everybody to workshop what would work and what would not.