Relevant Matter
Matters involving public funds
Public Policy Area
Arts
Period
1 Sep, 2025 to 31 Dec, 2025
Specific Details
Budget 2026 priorities for screen industries
Intended results
o Extend the Section 481 Scéal uplift to animation television production, creative documentaries and television drama series with budgets of up to €20 million.
o Introduce an 8% uplift for all productions outside the main Dublin/Wicklow production hub, the area to be designated by the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport after consultation with Screen Ireland.
Establish an elevated Section 481 tax credit of 40% for productions with a VFX digital component of at least €1 million undertaken in Ireland and eligible expenditure of up to €20 million per project.
Content Stimulus Fund: Establish a €10m Exchequer funded Content Stimulus Fund to stimulate high-end production.
Screen Ireland funding: Continue to significantly increase Screen Ireland’s current and capital funding to enable it to support the work of Irish creative talent and to promote inward investment.
Digital piracy: Provide increased resources to An Garda Síochána to investigate and prosecute digital piracy.
Irish language content: Promote the development, production and delivery of Irish language content including multiannual funding for TG4 in line with the European Media Freedom Act requirement for adequate, sustainable and predictable funding
Public service media: Ensure adequate resourcing for impartial and independent public-service media and adequate support for public service content by other media providers.
Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity
Torlach Denihan, Ibec Audiovisual Ireland
Did any Designated Public Official(DPO) or former Designated Public Official(DPO) carry out lobbying activities on your behalf in relation to this return? You must include yourself, and answer Yes, if you are a current DPO or a DPO at any time in the past. (What is a Designated Public Official?)
No
Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign?
No
Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client?
No
Lobbying activity
The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.
Designated public officials lobbied
The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them.
As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.
Conor Falvey
Assistant Secretary (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)
Tríona Quill
Assistant Secretary (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)
Paschal Donohoe
Minister (Department of Finance)
Jack Chambers
Minister of State (Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform)
Pearse Doherty
TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)
Rose Conway-Walsh
TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh
TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)
Patrick O'Donovan
Minister (Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)