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

Absolutely, although the point is, as I mentioned earlier, that if people refuse to sign those buy-out contracts and do not get a job, they are in effect blacklisted. On the specific question, in order to avail of section 481, film producer companies have to sign a declaration that they are abiding by legislation such as the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act, and they are supposed to notify the Minister of cases. Did Metropolitan Films tell the Minister there was a finding against it by the Labour Court over breach of a collective agreement? Does that concern the Minister? Did it inform the Minister that there were ten different cases of unfair dismissal, with seven at the WRC and three at the Labour Court, where the producer company refused to give evidence and said it was not the employer? It could hide behind the designated activity company, DAC, and therefore refused to even engage with the court or give evidence when workers claiming unfair dismissal took those cases. Should the Government not be looking at the detail of this and examining whether there is a major problem? I believe there is a major problem.

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