Mr. John Arkins:

The whole thing about intellectual property is best left to Equity. I am a supervising stage hand. Some €4 billion has been spent so far. If we made content and if there are intellectual property rights, money should be coming back somewhere. If money is coming back somewhere, why do they still need handouts?

When do we find out who owns the copyrights and content? We know the producer, who is the 100% shareholder of the DAC, got the money. The questions need to be put to him.

As far as intellectual property rights are concerned, my colleagues and the people I have worked with in front of the camera will speak to that. I do not know much about that issue but I do know, as someone who has worked in the industry for almost my entire adult life, that X amount of money has been spent and if we were making a success of the industry, there would be money flowing back into the country with all of the content that we have turned out. Who is getting the money from the content?