Ms Deirdre Donaghy:

The State provides extensive employment rights and protections, health and safety legislation and every other kind of thing. Extensive protections are provided by the State. There is a myth that an employment is forever. If one is employed on a film, one has a fixed-term contract and knows one has employment until "X" date. If one is employed in what is theoretically a permanent employment, one can be made redundant at any time. The work always has to follow whether work is there.

Our CBA and the opening statement by Ms Nash illustrate that the industry comprises many individual projects. We cannot change that. We have to find a way there is quality within that. The people in the industry say to us that their definition of quality is knowing that, first, there will be another job and they will have another project they can work on and, second, they have a process to see that their career will progress through the different levels. An awful lot of work has been done by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and Screen Ireland, in the context of how the industry works, to try to provide quality employment and ways of tracking quality employment within the reality of how the sector exists.