Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Does the Minister agree this should have been renewed last year or the year before because of the five-year minimum lead-in for the big productions? There are many series made by Netflix and Amazon Prime and so on. We are in a very new world of a screen, where all the different technologies are merging and it is not just film in the old-fashioned sense. The lead-in is quite extraordinary. Can the Minister absolutely confirm to the House that a decision will be announced in the budget because the industry needs that certainty to get out in the market and to be able to say we will have this relief? Can the Minister also confirm that it will be for ten years because anything less would be useless?

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