Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 February 2018

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

Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed)

11:00 am

Mr. John Arkins:

We have no issue in dealing with a mechanism that is legal. For instance, if Screen Producers Ireland would enter into a collective agreement where it names its members and those members identify themselves as the employer, we would have no issue with that arrangement whatsoever. As long as they would be named in the agreement, we would have no issue with it. If one has an issue with any of this, one could go through the process of dealing with them in the mechanism of the State. It is crazy to think that one arm of the State, the Revenue, gives money to individuals who recognise the benefits of section 481 and who are beneficiaries of that money, but who do not recognise their role when it comes to another arm of the State, the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, and who turn up to the WRC to defend their position and tell us there that they are not the employer, they only got €10 million for their last production and it has nothing to do with them. That is untenable. That is unacceptable. That is what needs to be changed.

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