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

Ms Elaine Geraghty:

The experiences of employees and employers are different depending on the project. This would need to be tracked, and Mr. Collins might like to speak on it, but it would be possible that an employee has worked on a number of productions for the same company or might end up working for five different employers, depending on his or her skill set and availability. There is crossover in terms of when productions are made and freedom of movement that involves availability.

In an ideal world, we would love to have full production 52 weeks a year and to be able to offer that. However, to understand the complexity of how productions are put together, and I spoke of the timescale, that reality is it could be months in terms of bringing it to bear.

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