Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 November 2025

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach

Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed)

2:00 am

Photo of Mairéad FarrellMairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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Just for clarity, it is my understanding that the number of productions in receipt of section 481 tax credits which employ an Irish-based composer or use any Irish-based music contribution continues to remain static at just 30%. My question was not in relation to Britain's music scene getting bigger. The Minister said that if we decided that Irish-based composers had to be used, it could impose a limit. Has analysis been done in Britain that the measure would have a knock-on impact on the number of films produced in Britain?