James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Cummins, Ms Buckley and Ms Magnier for their contributions. At the outset, I will say that this is an important topic for the new members of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment. It is an issue we wanted to highlight as quickly as possible. We are conscious that we could have many organisations in the room today. I feel we have a good flavour of what is happening on the ground from the representatives, who are from a wide spectrum of industry and employers.

I am going to hand over to the members of the committee. The opening slot is for Sinn Féin.