Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Screen Producers Ireland

Ms Elaine Geraghty:

Would it be possible to correct one set of numbers as I think it is important to do so? A figure on the numbers working in the audiovisual sector was cited at a previous session. Deputy Boyd Barrett would prefer me not to refer to it. The figure was not from us but from the Olsberg report on the numbers employed in the whole audiovisual industry. Instead of taking out the element that refers to film, television and animation, which is the 7,070 figure that I stated, it was incorrectly but not intentionally given as 17,000. The overall figure is actually 16,930. The Deputy asked if separate work was done. That work is actually the cost-benefit analysis from the Department of Finance, which was before the committee and gave another number-----