Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion

Mr. Dermot Horan:

I will be honest; it needs to ramp up. It is for all of us to ramp up our volume. Last year, RTÉ put out 43 hours of drama. A few years ago, we were putting out approximately ten hours of drama. For each of those hours of drama, there is probably a 3:1 ratio of other dramas we developed that, for one reason or another, have not come to fruition. We need to develop and commission more. We need our partners to do more. We need that certainty of the other funding. We are competing in a very competitive international marketplace. We need to build an industry of scale so that we can work with those writers. We want to enable writers all the time. We get proposals from writers every week.

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