Results 1-12 of 12 for troy speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in respect of what is happening in the context of section 481. I would also like Mr. Arkins to comment briefly on the studios here. I am curious about this point. Public money was involved in Troy Studios, was it not?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...was where "My Left Foot" and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" were filmed. I could go through the list of classic films. This is part of Irish cultural heritage and history. I should also mention Troy Studios. Is the Minister joking in suggesting that public money did not go into it? I believe that Troy got €9 million or €10 million from Limerick County Council, which...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the money ends up in the hands of a small number of film producers. IDA Ireland sold off the bit of film infrastructure that it had. It had a one third share in it. We put money into it and into Troy Studios, which now end up in the hands of an American real estate firm. It is cultural treason and it is shocking. The EU requires us to build up companies of scale for state aid and a...

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...place, I have to say, makes me laugh or cry sometimes. We have had an hour of Government speakers before we get reached, by which time the Minister - no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Troy - is gone. That is what the changes to the speaking order were designed to do. They were designed to knock down a significant section of the Opposition to the point where it is lost in...

Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (9 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the relief provided under section 481 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, which amounts to approximately €100 million, and yet nobody in the industry has a job. Everybody who was working in Ardmore Studios, Troy Studios and Ashford Studios was sacked on 12 March. Those people were not put on the wage subsidy scheme, they were sacked. There was no consultation with the workers...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...on in the background in the industry. I would like to hear from the Minister whether he accepts that there is a concern about this measure inadvertently favouring just one or two locations, most likely Troy Studios, at the expense of everywhere else.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...or where a film industry already exists. Could this underpin the decline and demise of Ardmore Studios in Bray? The Government made a terrible decision in selling its share to the people who own Troy Studios and who now have a serious conflict of interest between their ambitions for Troy Studios and the fact that they also have Ardmore Studios. The latter is potentially prime real...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Irish Film Board or Screen Producers Ireland would provide clarity on this issue. How many people are working in the film industry in Ireland today, 4 July? It is likely that there are almost no people working in Troy Studios, possibly ten to 15 in Ardmore Studios and possibly approximately 100 elsewhere, all of whom are on project-by-project contracts. In the context of €80...

Topical Issue Debate: Ardmore Studios (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...for trainees, no pensions and no continuity of employment, yet millions of euro are going into the film industry. Incredibly, in Ardmore itself - which will be run by the same CEO who is linked to Troy Studios to run it down - there are four stages sitting empty while public money is being used to finance the production of films in NAMA buildings that are completely unsuitable. In the...

Topical Issue Debate: Ardmore Studios (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., according to reports at the weekend, in debt. It has been sold to Olcott Entertainment, a company that was only set up 29 days ago. That company is headed up by Mr. Joe Devine, who is also involved in Troy Studios. The current chief executive officer, CEO, is also linked to Troy Studios and will continue as CEO. I understand Mr. Ossie Kilkenny, who is also involved in Troy Studios,...

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...

Other Questions: Departmental Reports (12 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, I have a question that is almost the same word-for-word as those tabled by Deputies Wallace and Troy. Why was it not grouped? The Department makes the decision. Why were these questions not grouped together? It is exactly the same question.