Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 October 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion

Mr. John Arkins:

The Government has given €4 billion of taxpayers' money and has never spoken to the person to whom it was given. In my 28 years working in the industry, not one person who got one red cent of that money has been asked what he or she did with it. Even when it comes to their accounts, you cannot find out where the money is. They use a TR2. Nobody can find out where the €4 billion has gone. I do not understand. Politicians are put in a privileged position by the Irish people - Irish taxpayers - to pay out their money but they have not spoken to the people to whom they gave it. I spoke to a person about section 481 and this is what he said to me in the WRC.