Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that there have been positive moves on that in recent times. It is good that the Department would keep an eye on the amount of spend on that space. I have a more parochial matter. We visited Trinity College as a committee recently. We also, as a committee, visited the repository of the National Museum of Ireland in Swords. It is the old Motorola factory in Swords where the museum holds everything that is not on display. A number of different cultural institutions have stated that they are under pressure for storage space for the future. I bring it to the Minister's attention that there is an old NEC factory in Ballivor standing idle at the moment which could potentially house a repository of some of these organisations if it was needed.

Before I finish, the film industry is an important issue. The film industry has been wonderful in recent years in that we have seen tremendous growth in indigenous and international film. There are a number of difficulties within the industry that I brought to the attention of the Minister before and that we discussed in this committee. The Irish Film Board stated that it would be interested in constituting a film forum which could look at the issues concerning the industry and that it hopes to fix it. Is it the Minister's view that it should constitute a film forum on this? We also discussed the issue of the craft sector of that industry and having somebody nominated to the film board, which would be very useful. If the Minister could nominate somebody from the craft sector, it would mean that that element of the film industry would be represented within the Irish Film Board and therefore would be able to get involved.

The Gate Theatre report has been published, looking at some of the difficulties that happened there. I request that the Minister looks at a similar report within the film industry, or at least a survey of experience among workers in the film industry on how they have experienced their working environments, and also of the production companies and managers too. It is very important that their experience of the industry there is understood too. Are there any actions to be taken from the Gate report?