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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Niamh Smyth: The committee is meeting with officials from the Departments of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and Finance, in addition to representatives from Screen Ireland, Coimisiún na Meán, RTÉ and TG4, to discuss support for the development of regional film and TV production. I warmly welcome the witnesses to committee room 4. We have a full house and it is lovely...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I call Ms Mary Nash from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to give her opening statement.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Ms Mary Nash: On behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport & Media, I thank the committee for today’s invitation. I am a principal officer in the arts, film and investment unit of the Department. The Department welcomes the opportunity to discuss supports for the development of regional film and TV production. Government support for the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

...ún na Meán. Mar thús níor mhiste liom b’fhéidir beagán cur síos a dhéanamh ar Choimisiún na Meán, a bunaíodh i mí an Mhárta anuraidh agus a tháinig i gcomharbacht ar Údarás Craolacháin na hÉireann, nó an BAI. Coimisiún na Meán was born with an expanded remit that covers the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Ms D?sir?e Finnegan: I thank the Cathaoirleach and the committee for inviting us here today. Fís Éireann, or Screen Ireland, is the national development agency for the feature film, television, animation, documentary, visual effects and games industry, supporting the expression of Irish culture on screen. The Irish screen industry has achieved extraordinary global acclaim in...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Mr. Dermot Horan: I thank the Cathaoirleach and members for the invitation to discuss today the future development of regional film and television production. RTÉ is committed to programming made in the regions. It forms part of our public service remit, serves our audiences, and has been called out as one of the four new key pillars in our new strategy framework. We already have...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Niamh Smyth: I thank Mr. Horan and call Mr. Esslemont of TG4.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

...officer in the Department of Finance, with responsibility for the section 481 film tax credit. I am joined online by my colleague, Ms Donaghy, who is a principal officer in the Department and responsible for business tax, which includes the section 481 tax credit. On behalf of the Department of Finance, I thank the committee for its invitation to discuss supports for the development of...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Niamh Smyth: I thank Mr. Kavanagh. That brings us to the end of the opening statements. I will now turn to members for questions and answers. We will begin with Senator Warfield.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the witnesses. They are very welcome to the committee. Céad míle fáilte rompu. I will start with the issue of research and tracking figures from the industry. When I look at heritage figures, the arts sector and the audiovisual sector, we have a range of reports from different years. According to the Olsberg SPI report, in 2015 the wider audiovisual sector had a...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Mr. Alan Esslemont: We believe the number of direct, indirect and induced jobs is a good way to measure full-time employment. It works for our industry, which is a strange industry in many ways. Regarding the numbers for TG4 in 2023 for direct, indirect and induced full-time employment, we estimate we created circa 2,046 FTEs. Of these, 1,846 were in the regions outside of Dublin and Wicklow.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: To move on, I touched on the issue of the new strategic plan with Kevin Bakhurst when he appeared before the committee. The witnesses have referred to the plan. I had intended to raise the matter, and bringing the support of the independent sector up to between €70 million and €75 million, at the meeting. Reference was made to it being 50% above levels currently produced by...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

...opportunity here, as Ms Finnegan stated, to look at the sectoral benefits as a whole. The other thing that we, along with other members of the sector, have drawn to the attention of the committee and the Department is the content levy, for which we have collectively advocated. We can look at a range of those kind of funds and how they can collectively come together to give the entire...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

...Companies will grow not because they are just service providers for big Hollywood studios, but because they own their catalogue. High-end programming costs a lot of money. The more that team Ireland, which is this union of the tax relief, Screen Ireland, the broadcasters and perhaps the WRAP fund, can bring to the table as you go international, the more IP independent production...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Ms Vivienne Flood: Obviously, reform to the licence fee would enable more certainty in RTÉ's funding and allow us to engage with the sector in a more planned way, as well as on multi-annual deals, perhaps. Those elements coming together to give a bit more certainty within the sector would make a huge difference.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

...our companies. There are two things happening here. One is about production in the regions. A lot of that is companies in Dublin which are doing production in the regions, so they fly in and out, but that does not help the regions grow their own creative sector. Our sector has lots of ties with the rest of the creative sector. If we are not there on the ground, then all of the regions...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: Will the media commission update us on the European works levy and where that process is at?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

...in the Future of Media Commission report. It was laid at the door of Coimisiún na Meán to conduct a feasibility study about how a levy might work, what it might bring in, how it could be used and how the scheme might take shape. Fís Éireann will also have a role in that. At the moment we have a consultancy group called Nordicity undertaking work on that on our...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank all of the witnesses and not just for their presentations today. We are experiencing a relatively golden period in terms of Irish content production in film, television drama and animation. The combination of the work all the witnesses do is particularly important. Our committee wants to see a lot more of it, and part of the reason for that is what the witnesses have outlined....