Mr. Donall O'Keeffe:

To my mind it is about funding the recommendations that come out of the COG working group on short-term measures. The COG is looking at six different things, including: the integration of Ukrainians who want to work in hospitality; the international recruitment of staff in Europe into the Irish market; and building future skills. The challenge for the COG process, which is the right process, is that somebody has to be made accountable for the delivery of the recommendations. I am sure the group, which is due to finish its work in the coming weeks, will come up with sensible recommendations on how to drive this forward. Then it becomes a matter of who is responsible for doing that and who is funding it. We must also bear in mind that the COG is working across Fáilte Ireland; SOLAS; Enterprise Ireland; education and training boards; the expert group on future skills needs; the Departments of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Social Protection and Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media; and higher education colleges. Somebody has to take responsibility for those outputs to make them happen. One of the things we would ask of this committee is to ensure that is resourced to be delivered and that it does not just become a set of recommendations of things that must happen before we all wonder why it did not happen.