Ms D?sir?e Finnegan:

Absolutely. Again, we do not administer the tax credit, but I can speak from the Screen Ireland perspective on this. The European copyright directive and copyright in general is a very complex area. From our understanding, it requires very careful consideration. As an agency, over the past 12 months or so, we have met with each of the stakeholders across the sector to try to understand the different views and where there might be challenges around the implementation of the directive.

We welcome the European copyright directive and its full implementation, but we believe it requires the industry to come together. Therefore, we proposed to the sector an informal working group around this. We have been seeking an independent chair because we, as an agency, are also investors within content. We wanted to make sure that we could better understand some of the complexities around it. We are actively looking at including the European copyright directive in our own contract provisions along with all of the other legislation that we have requirements around. We hope that we get full engagement from across the sector, which we believe we will, to work through where views may not fully align on certain aspects of it.