Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Gareth Lee:

As I said earlier in terms of the skills development requirement link to section 481, it is very much an holistic approach. So it is about new entrants and trainees but it is also about upskilling and progression because one needs people to move up in order to have an industry. So that is very much our approach.

As the witnesses in the previous session have stated, it is important that we bring new people in and grow the industry. We should be very supportive of that and we are. We also need to ensure that we upskill those who are in more senior positions and so on, and we do that through our work around section 481. We do a whole host of other things in the skills department around continuous professional development and so on.

As the witnesses in the previous session said, I agree, I do not think that there is an imbalance. Certainly with skills, we see a balance between the upskilling of people who are in the industry already and new entrants coming in. We are keen to grow the industry so we should not deter new entrants and trainees from coming in as well.

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