Ms Deirdre Donaghy:

The system has to work within how the industry itself works. In the case of producers who are making series, the days of annual series are almost gone now. Every six months or nine months, a new series comes along. The question then is whether a case will be taken that will come within the timelines and have a decision made. The impression I have is that this is not a simple issue of timelines and there are many complicating factors such as employees working with other productions in the meantime and still trying to say they had a continuous contract of employment. I am not in any way qualified to give the Deputy an opinion on those issues. They need to go to the right bodies in the State, with the people who are the experts on these matters.