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

Photo of Shane CassellsShane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

He is not my cousin. Morgan O'Sullivan also brought things like "Braveheart" through the section 35 grant to Ireland, in particular to Trim. Speaking of tax I wanted to touch first on scriptwriting, which is the most important. Mr. Kavanagh mentioned at the end of his statement the work being undertaken by the Department and the support of the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, for the unscripted sector. He said it is intended to have this introduced in this year's finance Bill. Can Mr. Kavanagh tell me where we are with that? I called for it last year. All of the focus is on the scripted sector but there is a large amount of potential in the unscripted sector as well. I mentioned the value of things such as "Next Level Chef" to the studios in Ashford last year. Where are we with respect to that?

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