Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank all of the witnesses and not just for their presentations today.

We are experiencing a relatively golden period in terms of Irish content production in film, television drama and animation. The combination of the work all the witnesses do is particularly important. Our committee wants to see a lot more of it, and part of the reason for that is what the witnesses have outlined. We have talked about the economic benefits to the country, Mr. Esslemont talked about the linguistic dividends, and there is clearly a tourism dividend. We know this because this committee also deals with tourism and our colleagues here talk about it. There is also a dividend in terms of national well-being, being able to tell Irish stories and get that content out there. I am very happy Coimisiún na Meán has placed a strong emphasis on that. Of particular concern for us is that we want to see that developed at national and regional levels, and we have heard and know about many good examples.

Coming out of out of these engagements, we are obviously going to be making recommendations to the Minister for Finance in our committee's report. I will not ask the people from the Department about this, but I will ask in the case of the witnesses from the agencies, Screen Ireland, RTÉ and TG4, if there were one financial measure they believe would assist further, what would that be?