Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Professor Doherty referred to Deputy Boyd Barrett's description of the film industry and how it works in substance and form. We have a long way to go here. Recently, I have come across a local facility in Limerick which was funded by the Department of Education and Skills and run by a local board. When the local board decided to close the facility, people were let go without redundancy or other employment rights. However, the Department insisted that all responsibility lay with the local board, which was, of course, worthless to the employees. We saw that on a larger scale in a Dáil motion we passed last year on community employment supervisors. The Department insisted that a Labour Court recommendation that supervisors should get pensions was a matter for the local community employment boards. I am interested in the film industry and hope people get sorted out, but the State is the main offender in this regard.