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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Before the Minister comes in, we will hear from Deputy Murnane O'Connor.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: In the Minister’s opening statement, he spoke about the SEAI. I know the Government is really encouraging these grants and work is being done through contractors, but in recent months, while we are encouraging people to take up the grants, elderly people have come to me who would have got a small grant maybe 15 or 20 years ago who now go for this grant and are not allowed to get it....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy Murnane O'Connor has stretched the limit.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I know.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: Grants for offshore wind.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Dara Calleary: The SEAI comes under the operational responsibility of the Minister, Deputy Ryan-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I have brought it up twice now.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Dara Calleary: I am pretty sure we will bring that to his attention. To go back to the offshore side of things, there are quite different opinions in terms of how advanced the technology is and how suited it is in particular for offshore on the west coast of Ireland, as the Deputy will know. What we are doing in our strategy is that we will establish an offshore wind centre of excellence. It will look at...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith ag an Aire. Bogfaidh mé ar aghaidh anois go dtí an chéad cheist eile in ainm an Teachta Richard Boyd Barrett.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Film Industry
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he is considering to ensure full compliance with EU copyright directives and copyright legislation, given the issues raised by representatives of actors, performers, writers, and directors about the use of buyout contracts in the Irish film industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30469/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For many years, I have been raising the concerns of people in the film industry and this question relates particularly to actors, writers, directors and performers who are forced by film producers in this country to sign buyout contracts, contracts which are far inferior to what actors, performers, writers and directors get in other jurisdictions. These buyout contracts are a breach, in the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: Go raibh maith agat, a Theachta. As the Deputy will be aware, copyright legislation ensures that all authors and performers, including actors, performers, writers and directors, are protected by provisions of copyright legislation where the authors or performers choose to transfer their rights to another party, for example, to producers in the film and TV industry. The transfer of rights is...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: More transparency about how much money is generated out of the films is welcome-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: It is regulated more.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but the problem, as I have been trying to explain to the Government, as have the representatives of the writers, directors and performers, is the people with the whip hand are the producers. If you want a job, you sign the contract or otherwise, you do not get a job. That is the way it actually works. The contracts being offered to writers, directors, actors and performers are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: To clarify, Regulation 27 is about transparency. Once you have your transparency, Regulation 28 kicks in and that offers authors and performers a contractual adjustment mechanism when the remuneration originally agreed turns out to be disproportionately low compared to the success of their work. That is important to clarify. To be clear, the existing copyright legislation ensures that...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was the one who asked our committee to do that report. I know quite a lot about it, with respect.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: Well done.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am pretty familiar with this issue because I have been bringing it up for about four years. The problem is, nothing ever really changes. I am interested to see this legislation and whether it will make any difference. Could the Minister of State please tell us when that legislation is actually coming up? To repeat, there is an easier way to do this and it is for the Government to crack...