Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Sure. I have read it but the questions are how you get on that database and also concern the tracking of trainees. They have been designating people as trainees on films for yonks. That does not tell me anything has changed. They can put a document in stating they have a certain number of trainees. The big question is whether any of those trainees are working on the next production. Do they have any obligation to those trainees? Do those trainees have a qualification? The answer is "No". There is no pathway to qualification. We are still way behind on that. It is like we are ticking a box that someone is a trainee and, by the way, we have run a course that the trainee may have participated in. Does that actually give people a qualification and will they have any greater security in the industry than they had previously? The answer, in my opinion and from what I hear, is "No". There is still absolutely nothing to prevent someone being designated a trainee on this production and on the next production it is a different bunch of trainees.