Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would have had people come to me who have degrees, years of experience working in a particular sector within the industry who told me that they get repeated requests to become part of a production as a trainee. I do not know how that facilitates productions. One of the important things is that we leave capacity in the sector. If the Government is spending money there needs to be a capacity in the film industry that grows and grows. Training is a great way to do that, but if we are saying to the same individuals that we want them to come back on to the next production as a trainee and they are coming to the end of their time as a trainee, with no piece of paper that is QQI accredited to say they have achieved that level, is that a weakness?