Results 561-580 of 2,476 for speaker:Malcolm Byrne
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: They are small questions. Who wants to take them?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: I am conscious of time and Mr. Hickey, Mr. McCabe and Mr. Duggan were all signalling. If they are succinct, we will probably have time for another round of questions.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: We may have time for more. I call Deputy Griffin.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: No. It is the Deputy's time.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: An easy question to finish, Deputy.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: I am conscious, Deputy Griffin, that we may have time to come back to the other questions. To Ms Honan who is joining us remotely, please signal if you want to come in.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: Why do colleagues always leave the big questions to the very end?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: We need to move on. It now falls to me. We may have time for other questions. Our objective here and I think everybody's objective is, if I can use the chicken and egg analogy, to create a bigger chicken that is producing more golden eggs. We have been lucky. We have certainly seen the Irish content creation industry continue to grow and go from strength to strength. There is a lot more...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: The tax credit here is currently at 32% and we had the regional uplift. We know the issues that are there. Would it make more sense as a simple move to increase that tax credit?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: A lot of that is obviously on the international side. Mr. Hickey raised the issue of incentivising Screen Ireland to look at specifically investing in regional productions as well. Obviously he had another hat in a previous life. Would that suggest looking at requiring Screen Ireland to ring-fence funding to support regional production or how does Mr. Hickey think that could be done?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: Let us also talk about capacity, which was something that was discussed and we might touch on issues around studio space and crews and so on and obviously, we need to have the flow of training. I get that certainty is part of that. Apart from specific tax and other investment measures coming on the part of Screen Ireland, have we the capacity to cope here in Ireland?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: I might specifically ask about animation. I have got to say that Mr. Muldoon referred to Animation Ireland as AI and I have been used to dealing with AI, the technology kind and the agricultural kind. We now have a third form of AI, but specific to animation.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: Can that be done regionally? I ask because I am very interested, obviously, in terms of what Ms Keane was talking about regarding Kilkenny and building that hub.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: If we are looking at regional development, the development of that ecosystem locally is critically important and it is felt in Kilkenny and certainly in Galway also. As people will know, I have a particular interest in north Wexford and with the development of Tara Studios that is coming down the line. As we have been looking at the national, could I ask about the support that would be...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: I will come back to Ms Keane and Mr. McCabe because I am conscious that Mr. Duggan, Mr. Muldoon, Mr. Cummins and other colleagues might want to come in on a final question.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: Okay. I know people, such as Mr. Muldoon and Mr. Cummins, wish to come in.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: Now that Deputy Griffin is retiring, were there to be a remake or a sequel, he could star in it.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: I am conscious that Mr. McCabe and Ms Geraghty want to comment.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)
Malcolm Byrne: This remake or sequel could-----