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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are they employees of the recipients of section 481 relief?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not employees of the recipients of section 481 relief.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As contractors.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The HODs who make the decisions about who works-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. If they are self-employed, they are not employees of the recipients of section 481 relief, which are the producer companies.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Everyone is employed by the DAC. The person who gets section 481 relief is not the employer. Rather, the DAC is the employer. Is that right?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not the recipient of section 481 relief.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not mention individuals. Actually, I am sorry. I did mention SPI's representative.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not permanent employment.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Recognition of service in the industry.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be clear, they are looking for recognition of service.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do the production companies not just have it both ways? They want the intellectual property. The witnesses are saying it has to be signed over to the producer companies, and that is the standing company, so it has the intellectual property and, presumably, then benefits from the royalties from that. Maybe the witnesses could clarify that point. However, these companies do not want the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry to interrupt Mr. Hickey but I have so little time. Last week, I asked Equity directly if someone does not sign one of these contracts, will they get the job on the film and they said they will not get it. They also said, for example, of the film done by Disney recently in the RDS and various other places such as Wicklow, that people who worked on that here got lesser...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Equity has a very different view. Lastly, on the crews, is it the case - nobody is answering this - that if one works for designated activity company, DAC A, it is 100% owned by the producer company, DAC A disappears and exactly the same producer company sets up DAC B, but claims that it is not the employer of the employees of DAC A. That goes on with A, B, C, D. It is the same producer...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who determines whether they are good enough to be on the next project?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Always?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank our contributors. Who is gathering the database of crew?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who is collating that database? I am curious. Is it Screen Ireland? It is not Screen Guilds of Ireland.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought I had read in one of the documents that Screen Guilds of Ireland was playing some role in collecting the information. Is that not correct?