Mr. Eoin Holohan:

We need trainees. I work as a location manager and I am a head of department. On my recent job which just wrapped two weeks ago, I had three trainees. There were up to five at one stage. On the job previous to that, we had two. On the job I did this time last year - the job that Deputy Lahart came across - I would have had at one stage maybe five trainees. They are all different. Some of them might be available to do my next job, which is great, and some are not and they bounce on to another job.

When those trainees come to work on the film I am working on, or to work in my department, we monitor their progress and we teach them the skills because we want to hang on to them. We need them. I need those trainees to develop into location assistants and to then become assistant location managers.