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

It is just pass the parcel. I have to hand an email from someone who was not even in front of our committee. Their name could not be given. It just said that they would love to chat about the film and TV industry again and that blacklisting, bullying and poor practices are alive and well and happening now in some of the 13 productions that were under way in the country at the time.

The people who say things like that are afraid to speak out publicly. Those that did have not worked in the industry since. That is what is going on. It is possible because of the DAC structure for which the Government is responsible. The Government gives the production companies money and they give an undertaking to comply with all employment legislation. Such companies go into the WRC and state they are not the employer, even though the company knows who the person is and that he or she was employed on a film production where the company set up the DAC of which it owns 100%. Yet the companies say that they have no employment relationship with that person. And the Government is letting that happen. That is a breach of the fixed-term workers Act. Will the Government show us all the notifications or lack of notifications from the film producer companies about the cases that have been taken for unfair dismissal, which is effectively blacklisting?

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