Mr. John Arkins:

There are vested interests who say they are stakeholders in the industry but they are not. They are vested interests that generate money from the industry. We do not get money from the industry.

We earn our money in the industry and we earn that working for our employers. However, when we told Screen Producers Ireland that we have no problem talking about and arranging the issues, the correspondence we got said its members do not negotiate with anyone outside the ICTU group of unions. We are a registered trade union and they are not. They cannot negotiate terms and conditions of employment for people who do not work for them. That is the law, whether they like it or not. People can only address a problem if they acknowledge there is a problem.