Mr. Thomas O'Meilly:

I work for a service provider to the film industry. A few years ago, we asked to be directly employed by production and we were told that the hours we worked were illegal and production companies could not employ us. We, therefore, had to work for a service provider. I will give an outline of my day's work. I am a facilities driver and I start at 6 a.m. I will get everything up and running, including generators, heaters, etc. Everything also has to be cleaned. I am basically a driver-cleaner and, at the end of the day, the production wraps at 6 p.m. and everybody is out by 7 p.m. Everything has to be cleaned and, from 7 p.m., it takes us three or four hours to move. We finish at 10 p.m. or 11 p.m. and get home at midnight. We start again at 6 a.m. the following morning. That is a basic day for a facilities driver. We want to be employed by the production companies but they say they cannot do that because of the hours we do. If we were employed by them, that would create employment for more drivers because they do not have enough.