Ms Angela Dorgan:

We went to that Department through the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. It will be changed again and I have already forgotten the old name. We made submissions very early on and one day we had a Zoom call with 500 people. Over 400 of those individuals had problems. When we went to the Department it was quick to set up a dedicated telephone line to help people with qualification problems. They dealt directly with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection on behalf of the artists.