Ms Deirdre Masterson:

David Wray who is head of our music department is the arranger for that. One of our tutors, Eoin Cannon and Killian Donnelly were performers in it. It goes back to my opening statement. There is no criteria to submit for appropriate application forms to gain funding. Whereas box office sales are really buoyant and show that musical theatre has probably had one of the best - if not the best - box office sales in the country, as Mr. Campbell said, it requires funding to put on a professional set-up. If competitors are coming in with the bells and whistles, one cannot then do a semi-professional version because it is deemed amateur in the public eye. If this is to be done professionally, it needs to be funded accordingly. Currently, there are no appropriate application boxes to tick in order to do that. Similarly, as director of the Irish College of Music Theatre, which is now more than ten years old, we have not received anything either.