Liam Lawlor
Ceist:118 Mr. Lawlor asked the Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht his response to news that the British film industry, through its national lottery, is to receive funding equivalent to the entire EU fund for the encouragement of private sector investment in the European film and television industries; if he has assessed the likely impact of the British Lottery funding on this country's capacity to compete for English language films to be located in Ireland; the measures, if any, he is considering to address the impact of this intensification of competition for the location of English language foreign film productions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19958/96]