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

Ms Mary Nash:

Anything to do with the arts. There is an emphasis on climate change and anything environmental, changes and also disabled access. In general, it is for a wide range of arts such as theatres, music - not-for-profit organisations.

That leads me to the next part. Film studios are excluded under state aid rules. If members care to read a study from Spain, the name of the studio was the Spanish word for city. It is a very interesting case if they ever want to look it up. Essentially, the Spanish Government and the regional government, gave a lot of money to a particular studio and when it was challenged, the studio ended up paying all the money back. The studio is still there and is state of the art, but it has been there for many years and has changed hands a number of times. There may be other ways around that to get the money to infrastructure.

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