The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, announced over the weekend that she intended to launch a campaign on the issue of bogus self-employment. That is welcome, although is somewhat late in the day, given that people have been protesting about this issue for years. Will the Minister's campaign include other forms of precarious and insecure employment? Today 100 film workers, possibly more, protested outside the offices of the Ministers for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Employment Affairs and Social Protection. I was there with them. It was the latest in a series of protests they have held. They claim there is rampant abuse of workers' rights in the film industry and are particularly angry that conditions attached to the €70 million per year grant of public money that goes into the film industry are not being met. The money is supposed to be attached to a condition of quality employment, which does not exist in reality. The protesters say there is blacklisting and insecure employment and that people are refused further employment in the industry if they raise issues of health and safety, overtime or excessive hours.

There is no policing whatsoever of these public moneys and the precarious conditions under which many workers in this industry are suffering. Will they be included in this campaign? They have requested several meetings with Ministers on these issues and have been refused those meetings.

I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett for raising the issue. We did not merely intend to launch the campaign he mentions, we actually did so over the weekend. It would be welcome were everyone, both inside and outside this House, to encourage people to contact us if they believe they are in a self-employed status not through their own making. To answer the Deputy's specific question, no industry is excluded. We are trying to reach people who are registered as self-employed not through their own choice. I have not received a meeting request from the people to whom the Deputy is referring. If he asks them to contact me, I am happy to meet anybody but I believe the people to whom he refers are employees in the main, as opposed to being made self-employed, and may have difficulties with regard to their conditions. The Workplace Relations Commission and the Labour Court are in place to assist those people. The new legislation, which we are bringing to Committee Stage on 17 May unless I am mistaken, should further strengthen employment rights for those who are on precarious and low-paid contracts.

The problem is they do not know by whom they are employed.

The new legislation will oblige their employers to provide that information within five days of them taking up employment. If the Deputy wants to get them to contact me I can certainly meet them.