Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion

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

Yes, but I ask how we are monitoring that stuff and who is monitoring it exactly. There are a number of different groups involved in this in terms of the application of law, including Revenue, the Department of Finance and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Arguably, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection has a role too. I will finish my question on film on the following point. I asked the Minister directly whether the quality employment and training condition require at a minimum the application of employment law and he said "Yes." However, there are allegations that employment law is not being applied and, in fact, there are WRC rulings against some of the production companies which are getting money where they have been found to have breached the rights of their employees. Nevertheless, they are still getting the relief. How do we police that? Is it right that they should continue to get the money when they have been shown by the WRC to have actually breached the rights of some of their workers? In one case, a company has even refused to pay the fine imposed by the WRC.

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