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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The tax expenditure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is still a lot of money. Is it correct that in addition to this figure there are grants and loans?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So is this €80 million, roughly, in grants and loans? Does the Irish Film Board give out loans as well as grants?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask about that in a minute. The figure of €80 million is a lot of money. How many people are permanently directly employed by the production companies? Given that €80 million is going in, how many people are permanently employed in the sector? If I understand it correctly, a relatively small group of production companies - the parent companies - are the main...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not mean full-time equivalents. What is the figure for people who are permanently employed by the production companies? I presume it is not the crew who apply for the section 481 tax relief and it is the company that applies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the companies who apply and who get the section 481 certificate and the funding?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of the companies who received it, how many people are permanently and directly employed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I fully understand that. Some of my comments are less focused on actors as the State should recognise that actors are not just normal jobseekers in between jobs. After a period, when it is acknowledged that a person is a professional actor, the State should ensure a decent living for them and make some sort of arrangement where they are employed by the State or given a decent level of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry to cut across the witness but I am going to run out of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do want an answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not transparent to me but that is because I do not know enough about the industry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The picture I am getting from people working in the industry is not a good one. I am hearing that the requirement under section 481 for quality of employment and training opportunities is not the case. I do not know how this has gone on for so long, given that section 481 has been in place for quite a long time and quite a lot of money has been dispensed. I met someone recently who was a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Ms O'Loughlin wanted to respond as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will take up the invitations as I want to know what is going on. I would like the industry to get €160 million - do not get me wrong - but I believe that when an industry gets €80 million, it should create more permanent employment in exchange. I met some people the other day who were producing the most amazing props. It was blindingly good work. They are in their 70s and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will have some of the other groups in again to discuss this. I want to follow it through with everyone here. Is there a conflict of interest in the fact that one person - I should not mention a name or I will be rapped on the knuckles-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----owns one third of Ardmore Studios and is also one of the owners of Troy Studios. There is something of a conflict of interest there. Certainly, fears have been expressed to me that Ardmore is being run down in favour of Troy. I want to see all of these studios flourish, but I put it to the witnesses that there is a problem if the same person has the biggest stake in Troy and something...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Anyone who wants to answer it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As a brief supplementary and as a matter of curiosity, is "Into the Badlands" filmed up in the old Dublin Sports Hotel?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is it up there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sure, although I could talk for hours about this as the topic is interesting.