Mr. Andrew Lowe:

I will briefly pick up on the Deputy's first question. Ms O'Shea may address the second, which related to training. In respect of it being commonplace, all I can say is that our experience does not tally with that. I know the committee has heard representatives from the guilds. I am not sure if any of the Congress unions have been here.

I know, on foot of these types of comments made previously, the WRC was asked to investigate working conditions in the industry. The commission produced a very comprehensive and constructive report. I believe that is the proper forum in which these types of complex industrial relations-type issues need to be dealt with. The WRC called for both sides to engage in collective agreements, which has now happened in many cases. The commission also acknowledged the role played by guilds. The guilds represent the vast majority of the crew who work in our sector. The WRC acknowledged that a lot of the crew were very happy, by and large, with how things work in the industry and were not looking for the sort of the changes that have been suggested here.

I appreciate the work the committee is tasked with doing. It is a complex industry which has a lot of moving parts, and this is another aspect of it. At least an independent State agency has been tasked with looking at this area and has reported on it. To the extent that any further work needs to be done on this, the agency could play role.

Ms O'Shea will talk about training.