Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

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

Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. James Hickey:

It is against EU state aid rules to provide a subsidy directly for construction or purchase, or any of the activities in a studio itself. Therefore, the important thing to support is production funding, which benefits the studios. As Ms Geraghty will bear testament to, it is not so much that the studio itself needs the investment but that it will get the private investment. There are opportunities through, for example-----

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