Mr. James Hickey:

We have to come back to the proposition that the industry is a project-based industry and it will always be a project-based industry. It is a project-based industry in every jurisdiction of the world at this stage. It is true that each time somebody is employed, he or she is employed in connection with a project. The project has a fixed period of time. It may be only six weeks for a feature film, it may be six months for a season of a television drama series and it may be two or three years for an animation television series, but there is always in the end a project-based approach to this industry. That is fundamental to how the industry is structured.

In terms of recognition of the work people do, they are recognised through each of the projects they work on. As the Deputy will know, every person involved in the project, the production of a film or a television series is given a credit at the end of the production. That is the credit acknowledgement of the work that has been achieved in relation to those people who are working in the industry. It is important. People get work on the basis of the projects they have worked on.