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

I have with me the declaration, and it is signed. I campaigned on behalf of film workers to get this declaration. When we bring the film producers that the Government gives the film credit to into our committee and I ask them simply how many workers who have worked on film productions have acquired contracts of indefinite duration, the answer is “Zero”. They go on to explain how it is not possible, given the nature of the industry. They sign a declaration saying they will apply it to fixed-term workers and they will comply with it, only for them to then say that it cannot be complied with. People work ten, 15, 20 or 25 years in an industry and they keep getting fixed-term contracts, which means they can be blacklisted at any time. Indeed, there was a ruling by the WRC recently that 38 workers had been blacklisted precisely on this basis. The Government has to address this and enforce the legislation.

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