Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This section deals with digital games relief. We will debate an amendment later regarding that relief and how it applies to pay and conditions in the training of employees in the sector. We do not want to repeat the earlier conversation on film relief, but it is a similar area. As I said, this is a sector we need to support and to grow. There is major potential in it if we get this right, but we need to ensure that, as the sector is expanding, the pay and conditions of workers are fair.

Game Workers Unite Ireland, a branch of the Financial Services Union, have raised concerns about employment conditions in the industry with the Minister. He mentioned that there will be a condition of quality employment. I know Game Workers Unite Ireland sought to engage with the Minister and wrote to him and to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment regarding discussion of the definition of "quality employment" in the context of this relief. We do not have that definition. Has that meeting with Game Workers Unite Ireland taken place? Has the Minister he engaged with the group on this? Is there now an understanding of what that definition will be and when it will be in place?