Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed)

Ms Deirdre Donaghy:

We have had an ongoing process of engagement. Certainly in the last four years or so there has been quite a lot of ongoing engagement. As part of that, we have met a lot of the representative bodies. We have met IFWA, which has been raising a lot of these issues. We met it a few years ago and we have sent an invitation to meet it again. We have met with Screen Ireland, which is the Government body involved in this, Screen Producers Ireland, Screen Guilds of Ireland, which is the representative of the guilds, and Animation Ireland. We have tried to talk to a broad range of people, as well as colleagues in the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and our colleagues in Revenue who are responsible for administering the credit on a day-to-day basis. We are due to meet with Equity tomorrow. We will try to get the broadest possible range and we have done that consistently over the last few years. There have been a lot of concrete changes in the sector as a result of that. There have been changes to how the credit operates, splitting it between the cultural test and the employment aspects of it and separating that from the Revenue elements to allow a much earlier engagement in relation to the training. As Ms Nash noted, her Department has totally changed how it will look at the skills development and there have also been a lot of developments in the sector itself that were referred to, like the-----

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