Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Screen Producers Ireland

Ms Elaine Geraghty:

The 7,070 is for television, animation, film and television drama, not all of which would benefit from section 481, but the vast majority probably would. One of the promises with the Olsberg report was that there would be a methodology to continue to analyse data in the industry and get these kind of statistics, such as the Deputy is speaking about right now. That was not brought forward as part of the report, which was eventually published last year. The last data we have which are done in any great detail are for 2016. We are without it though it would be helpful to have it in some form or another, because one is just working on top line numbers from Revenue rather than a deeper dive into what the industry is like and how it is structured. The information is there. It is a matter of gathering it.

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