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

I will be quick. It is on social dialogue so it is the same grouping.

I brought up with the Taoiseach, as has Deputy Ó Murchú, on a number of occasions the budget scrutiny committee report on section 481. People before Profit, Sinn Féin and the Labour Party all have tabled amendments to the Finance Bill 2023 on the issue of employment conditions and remuneration for writers, actors, performers, and stage crew in the film industry. So far, the Minister for Finance has not indicated any willingness to accept those amendments but at the very least it would be useful if we could get commitments around the stakeholder forum, which is very much about social dialogue and real engagement between the Government and the multiple Departments, which is part of the problem. There are several Departments actually consulting in a serious way with all stakeholders about what workers in the industry say is them being robbed of the proper rights and remuneration to which they are entitled in an industry that is very substantially funded by the taxpayer.

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