Mr. Ollie Kenny:

I wish to make a point on behalf of the amateur sector encompassing the drama and musical theatre. The types of issues that affect us relate to our rehearsal periods. The rehearsal period would normally be starting now for most amateur drama groups for one-night festivals and winter and spring productions. That has been scuppered yet again. This is the ongoing issue we have been facing during the past 18 months or two years. People have productions ready that they started rehearsing two years ago. They were ready to put them on in the spring and they were scuppered with the pandemic. People in the amateur sector in every town and village throughout the country still do not know. They have no idea when they will be able to go back into the halls and start the rehearsal period. That period is vital to the winter and spring productions.