Ms Clare Dunne:

In an ideal situation. One employer, for example, has told us that many of the people who come in on the seasonal employment permits come for a period of four or five months. Generally, they are older workers, not students, and while they want to go home and spend part of the year at home they want to come back here the following year. In that way a good employer will try to build up a good working relationship and a good rapport with the seasonal workers to get them back again.