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

Photo of Brendan GriffinBrendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That would be great. I looked at the budgets of the last number of years. It appears that 2014 was a particularly bad year and Screen Ireland was down to €14 million in total. By the middle of this year, before the most recent injection of funding, the organisation was up 72% on that figure. I imagine that 2020 has been a year in which the reset button has been pressed for many organisations, and a lot of funding will be required. How do the witnesses see 2021 playing out in terms of returning to normality? I know that the witnesses do not have a crystal ball, but do they feel that the financial challenges for 2021 are going to require further Government intervention, or will the funding that has been announced to date get the organisation to where we all hope it will be for the second half of 2021?

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