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

-----but the problem, as I have been trying to explain to the Government, as have the representatives of the writers, directors and performers, is the people with the whip hand are the producers. If you want a job, you sign the contract or otherwise, you do not get a job. That is the way it actually works. The contracts being offered to writers, directors, actors and performers are dramatically inferior than what you get in other jurisdictions. The terrible thing here is those film producers are only the producers of the films because the Government gives them money to make the films through the section 481 film tax credit, which is supposed to be for quality employment and training. My committee has recommended that something is done about this, but nothing ever gets done. It is pass the parcel between the Department of enterprise, the Department of Finance, the Department of arts and the Department of Social Protection, all of which should be working together to stop this mistreatment of our talent and the people who work in the film industry in this county.

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