Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Where else can these projects turn? An Ireland Strategic Investment Fund of €150 million, State money essentially, has gone towards a €300 million project in Greystones. That is a massive project, ad it probably will not be delivered for a number of years because it will have to go through the process. In west Cork, there is an almost shovel-ready project, whereby a building that already exists could be converted for very little funding, but there is nowhere for it to turn for help. We can imagine the very significant direct and indirect benefit from bringing these productions to a smaller town such as Skibbereen, which is close to many incredible locations, from Kinsale in the east to the Beara Peninsula in the west, where filming could be done. If not to Screen Ireland, where can these projects go?