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 Libbie McQuillan:

I will build on the very good question the Senator asked about reaching all across the value chain at various levels. As Ms Finnegan said, we run approximately 40 different schemes. One of the reasons we do that is we are operating across the value chain. We are going to where the talent is, wherever it is, at each stage of the journey. We mentioned the importance to us of the National Talent Academies, in particular. As they have stood themselves up and established themselves, it will allow for us to be more and more skewed in our nationwide reach and impact in future. We are already seeing the early results of that. It is through those kind of initiatives that we get to the great good of particular stories becoming more universal.