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:
Screen Ireland has been engaging with all of the film commissioners that are in almost every county across Ireland. We feel that developing the audiovisual sector across the country is a priority. We are actually in the middle of working through a strategic plan for 2021 to 2023, and we are going to actively engage with representatives from across the regions to get their input into what kind of other activity we could be undertaking to help support them. There is a lot of work that we could do in that area. I agree with the Deputy that the impact that productions can have on a local area is significant, given that there can be Irish cast and crew on those productions, and the spend that those productions can generate is really important. It is an important priority for us in the three-year plan coming up.
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