Cross-Border Co-operation
Dail Éireann — 2022-10-05
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

The Taoiseach mentioned shared island activity around the issue of arts. Later today, the Committee on Budgetary Oversight will, at my request, meet representatives of actors and other performers - the Equity union - and representatives of film crews. Something they will point out is that the pay and conditions of performers and crew in this State are far worse than they are in the North and Britain because film producers here, who are in receipt of a great deal of public money, are essentially pursuing a race to the bottom and providing much-reduced pay, conditions and access to residual or royalty payments for people's performances.

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Sitting date: 2022-10-05