Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

On the captioning point the Minister made — this relates to the allocation of money — my understanding is that the Minister is correct in saying it is the responsibility of the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources in terms of television but in terms of film production, part of the production cost of making films should be the captioning cost, irrespective of whether it is being produced for cinema or DVD. That is a valid cost of production of the movie and funding should be available under the Irish Film Board in terms of production costs for partly or totally sponsoring the captioning costs of those films.

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