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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have called for one myself.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To be clear, is it the case that anybody can register for it?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would be interested to see how that plays out. It is necessary. There should be a proper register of employees and trainees. To follow on from our earlier discussions, my concern, as I expressed it to others and it is a concern that was expressed by people who work in the film industry at our hearing last week, relates to the question of who are the employers in the industry. The film...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: However, the production company is the recipient of section 481.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How can the production company be given money to create employment if it is not the employer? I understand from an answer given earlier by Mr. Hickey that the DAC is a necessary-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry to interrupt. I understand that, and I understand the rationale of the DAC as an accountancy and financial tool. If a section 481 tax credit is given for quality, employment and training, the basic requirement for an industry and employment is that we know who the employer is and we know who the employee is. The problem is we do not. The DAC exists purely for the duration of the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not mean to interrupt Ms McGrane, but I understand all of that. I am getting back to the issue of employment and training. Once the DAC ceases to exist, who does the employee on a film production have recourse to as their employer?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If an employee is unfairly dismissed, for example, or an intern is mistreated or whatever, it takes around two to three years to get a case heard in the Labour Court or the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC. By the time the case reaches the court, the employer no longer exists, even though the company that got section 481 tax credit for that production on which the employee worked still...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure the producers do.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The HoDs. That is who we heard from
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We heard from three HoDs.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: But they cannot get their cases heard in that time. That is a fact; they cannot. I have one last question, and I know I am out of time. Taking just one of the roles in the film that was mentioned, we had a witness who said they were a production manager. How many people have qualified and been accredited as production managers through the skills training structures that have been set up?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not believe there is any dispute among any of us, notwithstanding all of the debates, about the need to invest in Irish language film, to invest in the film industry and to invest in the very talented crew, performers and artists that we have in this country. There was no dispute about that. I would like to see more money going in, not less. The big question that I feel is unanswered...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it divided up into different grades? Is that how it works? Can someone just register?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----accounting tool but surely that should not absolve the production company from responsibility for its employees. We did not have time to drill into it further but Mr. Hickey said we need the DAC system as an accountancy tool for investors and to provide transparency about what happens financially on a particular production. I put it to the witnesses that it absolutely runs counter to...
- Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week in the House, we discussed the issue of disconnections for users of prepay meters. On Friday, after holding my weekly clinic, I went to meet senior citizens who live in council accommodation. While I was meeting these elderly residents, an emergency occurred. They informed me of a man who had just got out of hospital, having spent five or six months there following multiple...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Many if not most organisations advocating for people with disabilities were extremely disappointed with the budget. One of the demands they all rallied behind was that there should be a cost-of-disability premium to bring minimum payments for people with disabilities up to €350 per week, as we deemed appropriate during Covid, and that people with disability should get at least that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It means that developers cannot select their own sites at the expense of the marine.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Developers should not select their own sites.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The developers are going to choose their own sites.