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

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I want to ask about that in a minute. The figure of €80 million is a lot of money. How many people are permanently directly employed by the production companies? Given that €80 million is going in, how many people are permanently employed in the sector? If I understand it correctly, a relatively small group of production companies - the parent companies - are the main beneficiaries of most of that money. I am aware there are a lot of small companies and so on but I understand there are ten or 15 parent companies who probably get the bulk of that expenditure, both directly and as tax relief?

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