Mr. Alan Esslemont:

It is good to remember that it is not only the English language that can get international resonance, as "An Cailín Ciúin" showed. "An Cailín Ciúin" was, and is, a development scheme. Every year we develop between eight and ten scenarios so that is the money for a writer to sit down and work that forward. If someone has Irish he or she is also an active bilingual so the likes of Colm Bairéad who sat down and got the money to do the scenario for "An Cailín Ciúin" can now sit down and work on works of international resonance in English. We have new schemes coming through with our partners, Northern Ireland Screen, Screen Ireland and Coimisiún na Meán. We have a scheme called Tús which allows people to start and then Céim Eile to take drama a bit further. As Mr. Horan said, development is key. We will not get good work without development in both languages.