Mr. Cormac Healy:

It is something that has to be considered. The rules as set out allow the person who has been taken on under a permit to move employment after a year. One of the points that should be considered is that many of the economy's individual sectors avail of employees with employment permits. They are looking to recruit people with some experience, background or specialty in their respective areas. It might not always be the case that an employer could get someone from another sector. For example, we have worked with the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation on defining some roles. There is a strict quota around those roles because a particular type of person is being sought.

However, that is a matter for a different forum. It is something that can be looked at. There are those complicating issues as well, or sector-specific issues, that might not lend themselves to recruiting from a different sector.