Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chair. I thank all our witnesses for their detailed contributions. I put my first question today to the representatives of Screen Ireland when they were here last time. It relates to research in the sector. When we look back at research from the heritage, arts and audiovisual sectors, it all comes from different years. It is all very old too. The heritage sector research, for example, comes from 2009, while I think the data on the arts sector comes from 2010. I think the information from the audiovisual industry comes from 2015. This is the Olsberg report. Screen Ireland said it was looking at updating that report. Is there a need to do this? Understanding our culture is important. It says something about how we value our culture that we do not do enough to track it regularly. I would be interested in hearing comments on this area of research.