Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This has been an ongoing issue. In recent days and weeks two sets of email pleas have inundated my email account. One has to do with the slaughter in Gaza by the Israelis; the other pertains to this question of creatives, as the Minister calls them, that is, performers and writers, and their families demanding that Irish performers be paid fairly for their work, in line with what is common in other countries. This has to do with the increasing practice - it was not always there - which is, in fact, nearly compulsory now, that those creatives, in order to get any work in the audiovisual sector in Ireland, have to sign buyout contracts and waive their future residual payments. Yet we see, under section 481 and other encouragements for the audiovisual sector, that those who are in charge or the producers get the benefits whereas the workers, the creatives, do not seem to get them and are forced to sign away their rights.

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