965. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the estimated first- and full-year cost of implementing the recommendations of the Committee on Budget Oversight on Section 481. [33169/24]

Most of the 14 recommendations from the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight on Section 481 Film Tax Relief are outside the remit of my Department and fall within the responsibility of the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Minister for Finance.  The stakeholder forum on the Section 481 film tax relief (recommendation number 14) took place on 8th February 2024.   The topics discussed at the forum as suggested in the recommendation itself included:

- how to maximise the benefits of the Section 481 credit for all concerned stakeholders;

- best practice in employment rights, industrial relations, collective bargaining;

- Copyright and Intellectual Property issues; and

- any other relevant issues.

Stakeholder organisations included representative bodies for animation, visual effects, producers, trade unions, audiovisual guilds, diversity groups, local authority film/Arts Officers and other representative groups. The cost of the event was €21,256 which includes venue hire in Dublin City, catering for the day, audiovisual microphone hire, professional rapporteur (preparation and event day), output report preparation and analysis.