Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 December 2020

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

Impact of Covid-19 on the Film and Television Industry: Discussion

Ms Désirée Finnegan:

The increase we received was very welcome. It was a €9 million increase in capital funding, which represented a 52% increase on our budget of 2020. The key elements we believe will need to extend into 2021 include the support for the implementation of health and safety protocols. We really felt it was important that we were helping to offset some of the costs to ensure we were giving support to the productions. Another element is the production continuation fund. As long as the exclusions exist or are in effect in the industry, we will need to make sure we are helping to provide cover. I might ask Ms McGrane to speak a little about the production continuation fund because we believe it has been absolutely key in getting indigenous productions back up and running. We anticipate that we will need that in 2021, or for as long as the restrictions are in place and the virus is being transmitted.

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