Ms D?sir?e Finnegan:

I have no doubt there is a significant cultural and economic impact from productions that shoot in the regions. Mr. Byrne might provide some recent examples. They include "Hidden Assets", which filmed in Cork and "Smother", which has had a number of seasons and is filmed in Clare. It is important to incentivise productions to be able to film outside the main hubs. In respect of large-scale productions, it is important that we are doing everything possible to meet the policy objective of building a permanent pool of talent and crew in different regions across the country.