John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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Good. I have two minutes after all that. I am sorry this is such short, sharp stuff. If SGI is in its infancy, as Mr. Holohan says, I would certainly be interested in being kept abreast of how it develops and in the committee having a monitoring brief regarding it. I am serious about that.

I am aware that the expenditure of companies in Ireland as a result of productions was €500 million last year. That is phenomenal. I am old enough to remember the closure of Ardmore and the devastating effect. Walking along a very narrow coast road in Achill last year, I came to a bend and saw a stop-start traffic system. I was trying to figure out why it was needed and noticed there were guys thatching the cottage roof. It was part of the film set for "The Banshees of Inisherin", which has just won a major award.