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)
Ms Elaine Geraghty:
I think of the crew level as the biggest opportunity. I know by sitting on the steering groups of the skills academies what we have on our doorstep. We have great courses in place. What we need is to give the opportunity for shadowing, which would be huge. We have generations of fantastic crew and we have a whole cohort of people ready to come in. There is a fantastic scheme called passport to production that has been incredibly successful. Netflix comes in and it does its own training. We are waiting to do it, that is the point.
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