Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I will do so because the submissions raise some pretty serious questions. They have been put in the public domain. The royalties and residuals are shocking and outrageous. They have publicly made the case strongly that the contracts and conditions of employment for people working on film productions here are significantly worse than in Britain, for example. That is very serious. We will hear from them and the detail will be seen in the report but they have made public statements to that effect.

That echoes the views of a group Ms Donaghy has heard from before, namely, the Irish Film Workers Association, whose leading figures have never worked n the film industry after they made these things public. Some of the people who work on those film productions have just said to me straight, "I'll never be working with those people again." It is as black and white as that. You get blacklisted if you say certain things in the film industry. I still do not see where the protections are, nor do I see how a situation in which people can be blacklisted is compliant with a state aid and EU requirement, and a legal requirement in terms of the relief here, that something called quality employment and training be in place, along with a permanent pool of skills.

The database is something workers have been screaming for. It used to exist many years ago. Who will draw up the database? I suggest we find out and I think the answer will be interesting.