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 respond to the first question from Deputy Boyd Barrett. On a site, there are often different crew requirements for different projects. A massive large-scale sci-fi production will require certain crew, whereas a location-based romantic comedy, for want of a better example, would have a very different requirement. That is our understanding from talking to the screen guilds that represent thousands of crew. Even within this report there is an element about quality employment. Olsberg has applied a framework to look at what constitutes quality employment in terms of meaningful work. Over 50% of people within the sector have been working in it for more than ten years. That would suggest there is a form of stability there. The ability to go from project to project with different employers each time is part of the nature of the industry we are in. I know that sounds repetitive. With regard to pay and conditions, it is through industry agreements that that dynamic is managed appropriately. Everybody, hopefully, comes out of those agreements with fair and proportionate remuneration and feels they work well. Where there are disputes, there is a mechanism within those agreements to address those.