Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 September 2021

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

Engagement with Screen Ireland

Ms Désirée Finnegan:

It is a very competitive business. A recent report last year showed 100 fiscal incentives in different countries around the world. It is very competitive. Anything that makes it a more complicated process might be off-putting. We spoke earlier about the regional uplift. Reviewing and ensuring that the tax incentive is as streamlined as it can be is also important.

With regard to the other areas, we had a virtual trade mission last year with the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, when we could not go in person. That was really valuable in building relationships and continuing those partnerships. We love to see an ongoing relationship with all of these international companies whereby they come here once and have a really good experience and then we bring them back in again with additional projects.