Mr. John Arkins:

Usually at the end of the production, in my years of working there, all the stuff bought for the construction end of things, that is, the machinery, tools, plant, scaffold and fittings, would be sold to the construction manager of the production. He would store it in his warehouse. It would not be hired to anyone else, it would not go anywhere else and there would be no other business plan. Then when the same producer would be doing a job, and I worked with the same construction managers and producers for 20 years, they would hire back at below the market rate the same stuff the taxpayer paid for on the previous production. That puts pressure on the hire companies outside that hire stuff out. That is where the stuff would go and that is the same for all departments. I know that because I have witnessed it. I have been in the warehouses where the stuff is that was bought by the taxpayer for the productions and for the production company that is supposed to be building a company of scale. It is getting money to build a company of scale, to hold on to this and to these employees to save taxpayers money in the long run. Instead, they rent the same equipment the taxpayer bought 20 years ago for 20 years. That one scaffolding tube could cost the taxpayer €1 million over a 20-year lifetime.