Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Construction is project to project but the law applies. The legislation relating to fixed-term work applies. Developers cannot dodge their obligations to employees on the basis that it is project to project. Animation is project to project but there is some security in it. It is also an audiovisual industry and companies are in receipt of section 481 but these problems do not arise. In the context of live action film, a plea is being made by the recipients of large amounts of public money that the industry is exceptional and that these laws cannot apply to them. They need to be told that they do apply, that the law is the law and that there is no derogation. Perhaps the Minister will confirm there is no derogation for film, as I understand it, regarding the fixed-term work legislation. It needs to be made absolutely clear to the people who receive public money this is the case, that other employment legislation applies and that the definitions of who is an employee and employer must apply to them also. They cannot state the law does not apply to them.

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