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

The Committee on Budgetary Oversight, of which I am a member, today launched a report on the section 481 film tax credit, which at the moment is running approximately €100 million a year to film production companies in this country to allow them to make movies, something we all want to see happen. The report suggests, however, that continued or increased investment in this area needs to be dependent on vindicating the rights of performers and writers under the copyright directive to their intellectual property rights and the revenues that flow from it, and that crews must have their rights, not least under fixed-term workers' legislation, fully vindicated, which is currently not the case.

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