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Taxes Consolidation (Development of Regional Film Industry) (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Taxes Consolidation (Development of Regional Film Industry) (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 to enable the Minister to identify regions of low audiovisual capacity and to include measures in the industry development test for Section 481 tax relief to promote the development of audiovisual production outside existing major production hubs. I am pleased to introduce an Bille...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It might have been easier if we had known that in advance because it would have allowed us to argue the point now rather than on Report Stage. The problem on Report Stage is that you go into recommittal and then you are in the lap of the Ceann Comhairle or the Business Committee as to what time we have in terms of making a change. Especially when we are moving powers and provisions towards...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In the context of section 2, the controller was mentioned. I am opposed to section 3. I have already made a number of points, but the position is even worse than what I had declared. While the Circuit Court is referenced in the section, so too is the High Court. Every citizen is entitled to have recourse to the courts. That is a given. Now, however, the process is being forced into the...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Okay.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 208 of Principal Act 2. Section 208 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3): “(3A) Equitable remuneration less reasonable collecting costs shall be shared equally as between a performer and an owner of the...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 2 In page 4, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(3F) A licensing or representative body may act on behalf of a performer or an owner of the copyright, with their permission, for the purposes of this section.”.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: On what?

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know whether I welcome it or not at this stage as my head is getting a bit fried by going back and forth. It shows the Minister is considering the matter. It is odd that, on one hand, we are taking powers away from the controller and, on the other, we seem to be ensuring it has some role in the appeals process initially. I would have to see the wording in order to see how it...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister of State. In some ways, that is the luxury of pre-legislative scrutiny, where a Minister proposes something and we go through the heads of the Bill and we agree or do not agree with what is proposed. We can tinker with the Bill before the wording is decided. The problem now is that unless the wording in a Bill setting out a measure is changed, it becomes an Act. The...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Yes. Those amendments were my initial way of dealing with it and trying to get my head around it. I was helped by others.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can push them if you want, Chair. They are preferable to what is there at the moment, but they do not capture in full what we would like to do.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister of State for her answers, some of which reflect answers I received in response to parliamentary questions in preparation for this Bill. I will come back to them. In the proposed legislation, the term “reasonable collecting costs” is used. That is not defined. The general scheme of the Bill used the term “justifiable collecting costs”. The...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. d1: In page 3, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "Amendment of section 38 of Principal Act 2. Section 38 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection (3A) after subsection (3): "(3A) (a) Payments made to a licensing body pursuant to subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall be known for the purpose of this...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. e1: In page 3, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "Amendment of section 208 of Principal Act 2. Section 208 of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following subsections for subsections (1) to (9): “(1) A performer has the right to share equally with the copyright owner in the sound recording the equitable...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. c1: In page 3, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 38 of Principal Act 2. Section 38 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1)(b)(i) by the insertion of the following “for the purpose of remunerating jointly the qualifying copyright owner in the sound recording and performers whose qualifying performances are...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. b1: In page 3, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 38 of Principal Act 2. Section 38 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1)(b)(i) by the insertion of “each” after “in respect of”.”.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is good. It is a rolling agenda item. I am on the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly and it is one of the issues I have asked to be included on the agenda of one of its subcommittees, namely to look at ensuring payment everybody equitably in relation to AI, which is one the new revolutions we can all benefit from it. We do at the moment. Everybody switches on their Google Maps. That...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am here for a while; I can speak for longer if needs be.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I was hoping the Minister of State would be able to indicate that we would look again at this whole section in a way that was not setting in stone some of the problems that have been identified and which, in fact, will continue in a slightly different way the approach that has been taken thus far in terms of the power imbalance between producers and the performers or artists. The directive...