Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I support the amendment and as all that is called for is a report, I do not see a reason for the Minister not to accede to the request. As has been mentioned, there has been quite a lot of film activity in and around Cork city and county. There is a very strong arts base in the county. In the absence of this or an alternative arrangement to bring Cork to the same scale of support as other areas for a significant sector of the arts, Cork would miss out. In the context of all that has been done to develop the arts in Cork and the large amount of artistic activity that exists, including in film, and because of the interconnection between people engaged in different elements of the arts, I ask the Minister to give consideration to what is, after all, just a report. If there are impossible issues that cannot be negotiated to remove the disadvantage for Cork, at least the Minister would at least have made an effort to have a report prepared on the subject.

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