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:
That is probably more difficult to explain because obviously the inward production is a significant part of the production activity that goes on. We have very large TV series which are produced here which employ hundreds of people. As I outlined in my presentation, we fund 16 indigenous feature films a year, some of which would be quite low budget films; a higher budget film would cost about €5 million to €7 million. A €7 million expenditure would be the highest, so they are at the lower end of the scale when compared with much of the inward production.
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