Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms D?sir?e Finnegan:
I will take this first maybe, and Ms McGrane may wish to jump in. It is incredibly important to Screen Ireland that the growth the industry is experiencing is nationwide and across the country. The regional uplift was a very effective intervention at the time but we feel it did not fully meet its policy objective to build a permanent pool of talent outside the hub of Dublin-Wicklow. We have had a very strong, positive working relationship with the Department of Finance and, in particular, with the Department with responsibility for culture in the context of trying to bring the industry together and understand what might be the next intervention that might be slightly more precisely targeted.