Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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So there is a difficulty. Some of that has come from workers, crew members and Irish Equity. They do not believe that they are represented in the bodies that are here or by Screen Ireland, which will attend. Whether that is right or wrong, that is the belief.

I will follow up on an issue that Deputy Boyd Barrett dealt with. There was an accusation of blacklisting. It is easy to see that if the head of department, HOD, does not ring people, then they are not in play. We will not be able to determine here whether that happens or not. There was an accusation of there being a move away from using experienced staff to having far more trainees. I accept that there will always be trainees since people need to be trained, but at this point, people believe that they are being blacklisted. They would call it a race to the bottom.

We are under time pressure here. I am sorry if I am being a bit short.