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

No, I would like to finish the point.

I am not against the cap being raised. However, the people who are going to benefit from the raising of this cap are the bigger companies coming in. Very few film productions have even got up to the €70 million. I am not against it but I am pointing out it is not necessarily going to stimulate the Irish film industry, although it may bring work in from the bigger producers. That is fine, but we also need to think about how to stimulate the Irish film industry so that it is not solely dependent on whether or not the big international foreign producers come in. There is a problem there. An example I mentioned in previous debates was "Black '47", which was a film about the Irish Famine, one of the most important historical events in the history of this country. That film had to use computer generated imagery, CGI, for the landscape sections in County Mayo because the company did not actually have the money to shoot in the west of Ireland. There is a big difference between the big foreign productions with their financiers that can avail of this and actually stimulating a domestic Irish film industry that will be self-standing and that would survive if we did not have all these foreign producers and that would therefore also focus on Irish culture. The culture test is the other dimension of the film credit. There is a serious question-----