Johnny Mythen (Wexford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

They probably thought if they asked for €350 they would not get it. The Minister knows how it works. In all seriousness, we need to bring it up to the living wage. It needs to get to that stage because as I said, artists are really precious to us. They lift us out of certain things in life and they really need help. Most of them work on a whim anyway. They might work this week and next week they might not or they might work in two weeks' time. That is how they operate. They do not operate on a full contract. I ask the Minister to bear that in mind and look at increasing it.