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

The problem is the conditions are not being met. In the case of Irish Equity, the motion passed at its recent AGM calls on the Government "to add to SI 119/2019 on film regulations under Schedule 1, information to support an application to the Minister for a certificate under section 481 of the Act of 1997, that any such application must engage all performers, authors and contracts that comply with the letter and intent of the copyright, the relevant Act of 2000 and the directive". That is not happening. The producer companies are, in the vast majority of cases, forcing them to sign buy-out contracts where they have to sign away their rights to future royalties on their intellectual property. I will return to the issues relating to the film crew in my supplementary questions. This is not happening, but our committee’s report states it must be a condition of continued or increased funding for film producers.

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