Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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It is good. It is a rolling agenda item. I am on the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly and it is one of the issues I have asked to be included on the agenda of one of its subcommittees, namely to look at ensuring payment everybody equitably in relation to AI, which is one the new revolutions we can all benefit from it. We do at the moment. Everybody switches on their Google Maps. That is AI. It is telling us the best or worst way, depending on the circumstances, to get from A to B. In this case, it all to do with ensuring that people or those companies cannot be freeloaders on the back of work that was produced by anybody in any shape or form, but in particular the performers. If we put in an inequitable distribution of those funds and if this legislation is passed unchanged, we will end up with a lot of cases in the District Court, the Circuit Court or wherever this will end up in the future because artists will have to keep challenging. We will be coming back to amend this again if it goes through with the current wording.