Ms D?sir?e Finnegan:

On the pay and conditions aspect, in an international context industry agreements are the way that it is handled. Even over the past few years it seems that there has been huge progress made in the industry in terms of having a crew agreement in place now. Such an agreement provides stability not only here in Ireland but when looking for international productions to come to Ireland. It is great to be able to communicate that there are stable agreements in place.

My understand is that the second agreement is the construction agreement. I suppose that any issues of pay and conditions would be dealt with through those agreements. Our view on that is that we would welcome all parties coming together and trying to get those agreements in place across all areas. As we look at our counterparts across Europe, we see that these agreements are in place.

Again, there are dispute resolution mechanisms within those agreements. As the industry is maturing, we see that growth. The growth from 2019 to 2021 was huge. It was a 40% increase in that time despite it being the second year of a pandemic. The sooner we can get to that point, across any areas where there are concerns, that is the method by which, typically, the industry deals with pay and conditions. That should be fair and proportionate-----