Ms Teresa McGrane:

Absolutely. I will go back to Crowe Horwath report, part of which recognises that the Government through the Irish Film Board needs to put more resources into training. We have developed a new structure with the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. We are looking to fund more posts in training.

We would like to create a dedicated post that would look after the development of apprenticeships and trainees in the industry. We have not had sight of the section 481 trainees who come through the production. That is not something that comes near us. It goes into the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. However, I would fully agree that we need to develop frameworks for that kind of training and accreditation.

Let me just say I sometimes feel I am working in a different industry because I do not totally recognise what was stated about trainees coming through and staying as such for a long number of years. I came into the industry as a trainee. My cohort of friends are all from the industry. They all came in as trainees. If anything, sometimes we have a kind of galloping factor through the trainee system. It is about developing, for Screen Training Ireland, access points into productions, the development of frameworks on the necessary competencies and skills basis, and a form of accreditation and how that works.