Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

There is also a reported €7 million gone into Ardmore. Is this not a bit odd? We are pouring all this money into the film industry and into Ardmore and there is nothing happening in Ardmore. It is happening in NAMA factories where workers are out protesting over the conditions they are employed in and then get sacked for doing so and have now been replaced by contractors. Where is the accountability about the expenditure of public money to ensure that our investment actually results in the development of a real industry with proper employment for those who work in it and where we have some idea what the hell is going on? Instead, millions in public money is going into the hands of private interests, whether they be production companies or a studio built by the State which the Government has now handed over to private interests, with what? Just their word that they will make films there when the place is sitting empty.

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