Ms Deirdre Veldon:

The Revenue guidelines on contract or freelance workers are proving very problematic for us. The lifeblood of journalism has been freelance workers and the ability to employ people just to do a particular task while they go about their business in other ways in the rest of their lives. If we find ourselves, as employers, needing to employ the vast majority, then we will, de facto, shrink the freelance market and employers will be very reluctant to take on freelance workers.