Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2025 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-10
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

I do not know if the Minister has an answer to these matters and I would appreciate it if he would look at them. The aggregate is over a very long period but it is €20 million to €30 million a year and then another arm of the State gives about €100 million or more. It is a lot of money each year and it builds up. One point I will make, and the Minister really needs to consider it, is that for all that money added up over time, the State has nothing - zero. We have nothing. We do not own anything. That money has paid for one of the major film producer companies, which regularly goes across the table to tell its employees they are not its employees or makes people-----

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Sitting date: 2025-12-10