Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Engagement with Screen Ireland
Ms Désirée Finnegan:
Could I add to that? The two areas that have found it more challenging are the exhibition industry, that is, the cinema operators, and the distribution companies because of the nature of either the closures or the movement of all the different film releases and having to move from maybe being a cinema release to being an on-demand release. As Ms Bergin said, we also added to the supports a cinema stimulus which was specifically designed to help those cinemas in bringing back audiences.
We are also trying to support the distribution community in the strategy in the years ahead. We have a number of different ideas around how we could strengthen that to respond to the challenge. The production activity has been outstanding and is a real testament to the industry.
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