Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Business of Joint Committee
The Creative Economy: Discussion (Resumed)
1:30 pm
Mr. John Phelan:
I have answers to two of Deputy Calleary's questions. I will let other speakers deal with the others. All Government agencies deliver on their mandates and do a good job so, therefore, the mandates may need to be looked at. As Mr. Gaffney said about the Irish Film Board, something like the Irish screen board might be more appropriate.
Content is typically treated differently to technology, particularly between Enterprise Ireland and the Irish Film Board, and probably quite correctly historically. I am increasingly seeing that it is more difficult to understand where the risk is different in content creation compared to technology creation. They are both high-risk so we may need more alignment between Enterprise Ireland-----