Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages
Dail Éireann — 2023-11-22
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

We have had the discussion at length but the Minister is giving an extra €50 million on top of the €100 million that goes to the film industry. Other money is going in as well. We want the film industry to thrive. We want more money to go into it but we do not believe it is right that, despite the perception of the film industry as terribly glamorous, for the vast majority of writers, actors, directors and performers, life is not too glamorous at all.
It is precarious. People suffer a lot of hardship and it is just not on that the right to their residuals are taken from them because of buyout contracts. The Government should crack the whip on producers and tell them to stop using buyout contracts and insist that film crew are not simply on fixed-term contracts for their entire career and never have any recognition of their service in the industry. They are simple demands and the Government should do something about them.

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Sitting date: 2023-11-22