Tax Code
Dail Éireann — 2022-04-28
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

Obviously, the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, is more familiar with this matter. These companies are flouting the regulations. They are flouting them openly. They are signing the undertaking and then doing the exact opposite. Not only are they doing the exact opposite, they are saying there is no basis on which they can have employees. How can the Government give people tens of millions of euro, purely on the basis of creating quality employment and training, when those same people say publicly they cannot have employees? Does the Minister of State get the point? There are no employees. There are no rights. These companies can hire and fire people at will and nobody acquires any rights, even though the money the Government gives them is conditional on giving those rights and signing an undertaking. The companies can blacklist, victimise or penalise people. Anybody they do not like does not get on the next film production and has no recourse because the companies hide behind this DAC, even though the money is not given to the DAC. The money - public money - is given by the Government to the film producer, which then says it has no employees.

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Sitting date: 2022-04-28