Mr. John Arkins:

Yes. Our submission states that any collective agreement that takes a worker outside the maximum legal week of 48 hours cannot be done by representative bodies.

It can only be done by the employer and the employee, and the entire agreement must be lodged with the court. We asked these questions and we have emails going back. I was the shop steward in SIPTU and president of the union's film and entertainment branch. I raised these issues and I have correspondence with all the union officials going back to 2011. We can make it available to members. I also made a submission as the shop steward in 2011 to a Mr. Finbarr Flood, who was brought in by the Minister at the time, Jimmy Deenihan, on foot of the Creative Capital report to see what was going on within the industry. I was the only worker to meet Mr. Finbarr Flood. The union officials met him by themselves. I have been raising this issue for a long time as the shop steward.