Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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86. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will investigate the abuse of employees, trainee employees and volunteers in the film industry in view of an imminent official strike across the industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47912/17]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Issues around conditions of employment as well as recruitment of skills and talent in the Irish film, television and animation industry through Screen Training Ireland are examined in the recently published National Strategy for Training and Education for the Audio-visual Industry which was commissioned by The Irish Film Board and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.

The report has now been published and is available at www.irishfilmboard.ie/news/bai-and-ifb-report-calls-for-government-policy-on-training-for-the-film-tel.

The recommendations of this study, along with an economic analysis of our screen based creative industries which my Department has commissioned in partnership with the Departments of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and Business, Enterprise and Innovation, are providing inputs for the development of an industry-wide long term plan for Ireland as a global hub for the production of Film, TV Drama and Animation under Pillar 4 of the Creative Ireland Programme.

I am not aware of the notification of official action to which the Deputy refers and note that there are State dispute resolution mechanisms available should any dispute arise.