Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion

Mr. Ian Kavanagh:

I do not remember off the top of my head how it was determined. I believe discussions were undertaken with the sector. We would have received a number of submissions from the sector on the costs associated with moving a production from the Dublin-Wicklow region to other regions in Ireland. I can get the Senator information on it - I do not have it to hand - but I believe there was a price point that was brought up on a number of occasions. We landed, and it was a political decision to land, on the 5%. Obviously, that was also introduced as a time-bound and tapered measure. It stayed at 5% for three years and went down to 3% and then 2%. It was always signposted that it would be a temporary measure. In terms of an assessment carried out since, we have not carried out a detailed assessment on the regional uplift.

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