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

The Minister of State has to look at this. The Acts are not working. The producers told us that no one had ever got a contract of indefinite duration and never would. It is not acceptable that people can work in an industry for 25, 30 or 35 years and never get a contract of indefinite duration. It means that the clock goes back to zero with every single film. It is as if they had never worked in the industry before. If the producer says people are not getting back on the next film, there is nothing they can do. The producer hides behind the DAC and actually goes to the WRC and tells people that it is not their employer. The producer is the one that gets the money to employ people, but it says that the DAC is the employer. When it is asked whether it set up the DAC, the producer says, “Yes, but it is not us because it is a separate entity.” This is what is happening and the Government has to do something about it. Workers are trying to take cases and the other side has barristers and all sorts of thing to muddy the waters. The Government has to crack the whip and insist that the fixed-term workers legislation is actually complied with and enforced.

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