Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Irish Film Industry: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. James Hickey:

These are two private sector organisations and their arrangements are very much within the private sector. There is no particular reason two studios cannot be owned under whatever arrangements are made. The point is that both studios are currently busy and active and being used for production. That is the great news at the moment. As I mentioned in my presentation, there are three television drama series being made in Ireland currently, which is a very significant increase on what was going on in the past. There was one big television series ten years ago but there are now three big ones being made here. That is an extraordinary tripling of activity. One is actively using Ardmore, one is in Ashford Studios in south Wicklow and the other is using Troy Studios. There are three separate large scale television series generating hundreds of jobs in each case for each project. That is the good news story.

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