Ms Louise Ryan:

I wish to return to the point about investing in local talent and local projects. As Ms McQuillan said, a huge part of what Screen Ireland does is investing in local film TV animation. We are also building careers and investing in film makers. That goes back to Deputy Brennan's question about the talent we are supporting. We have a number of shadowing schemes. One of the interesting things for today's meeting is seeing how film makers may start their careers with short films and they may go on to working on feature films, but they need that mix of film and television. For example, Kate Dolan is an amazing film maker who started with "You Are Not My Mother". She has also been working projects like "Kin" which was cofunded by Screen Ireland and RTÉ - there was a huge RTÉ investment. That has really built her career and she is now working with Blumhouse and has her own feature film coming next. That is a wonderful example.

There is a lot of acting talent. Éanna Hardwicke had a small role in "Normal People", but people may not have noticed him because Paul Mescal was shining bright. Ultimately, we will now see him in two feature films coming this year that we are pitching out to the market and he will have a lead in "Saipan". He was also a star in the international film "Twain" last year. Therefore, careers meander through and they need all elements of the system.