Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy has shared new information with me and I will look at that. I can remember the exact debate he and I had on this a couple of years ago when I said this tax credit is predicated on quality employment being made available. He asked me in the Dáil Chamber what would happen with the tax credit if that quality employment was not available. I said at that point we would have to review how the tax credit is being made available and what the consequences would be for the company in receipt of it. That is what we have done with the process that is in place.

I will look at the information Deputy Boyd Barrett has shared with me. I assure him of my continued interest in this matter and my hope that the process that is under way in the WRC, which I believe our debates and the action I have taken in previous Finance Bills have been a catalyst for, can lead to changes that get the balance right between creativity in the sector, despite the fact I know employment can change from project to project and film to film, and making progress on issues which appear to be there from an industrial relations point of view and an employment rights perspective. We will continue to debate this matter and I will continue to be interested in it. I hope later in the year or early next year we see a step forward in the WRC on this matter.

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