Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As someone who grew up listening to great stories about the production of "Ryan's Daughter". Fifty-five years ago, my father drove on that production and worked during the summer of 1969, to borrow the words of Bryan Adams. I am not sure whether it was 1968 or 1969. The point I am trying to make is that the actual financial impact in our little locality on the Dingle Peninsula was incredible. We are 25 miles east of Dingle. Most, albeit not all, of the filming took place west of Dingle, some of it around our own locality of Keel, Castlemaine, and Killarney National Park. It was incredible how broadly that financial impact was felt. The week's wages from that production at the time were like nothing that was being paid locally. To emphasise, to this day, the financial impact that productions can have in localities and through people working in the sector is enormous. There is a responsibility on all of us to protect those incomes and livelihoods.