Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Ruairi Ó MurchúRuairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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I accept that. We seem to have an issue with a number of people. I cannot determine how big a number that is but it seems to be significant and it is people who have worked in the industry for years. The way the industry operates, as you move from project to project, creates a certain level of difficulty. I have no wish to make headlines but there seems to be a pre-1913-type set-up whereby it is almost that you show up and then the employer takes you on. That is just the nature of project-to-project circumstances and we must discover ways to fix that part. I do not know whether we need a forum or a greater level of representation, even as I have said about Screen Ireland, of some of these people. Can we do that?