Mr. Paul Kelly:

Before I come to that, I might return to the Senator's earlier point. We fully agree with what the representatives of the industry associations are saying with regard to the need to bring in international workers as well as Irish ones. It is important we do not waste the industry's time or taxpayers' money trying to recruit from markets from which we will not be successful in getting people to come here and stay here, as opposed to getting people for just a short period who will then go home. We have extensive research to carry out, therefore. We could not start this work until the impact of Covid-----