Statement released by Dublin Bay Studios, January 24, 2017:
We welcome the publication today of the Draft Poolbeg West Planning Scheme and the confirmation by Dublin City Council that it supports commercial uses associated with ‘media, digital media and film production’ within the Scheme. We have submitted a detailed proposal to Dublin City Council and we look forward to continuing to work with all stakeholders to make this vision a reality.
Our ambition is to create Ireland’s largest full-service film, TV and digital content production studios at Poolbeg West in Dublin City Centre; studios on a scale large enough to compete internationally and built in the inner city so that they will also be a catalyst for a cluster of all the many technologies, crafts, specialists, talent, finance, arts, culture, University R&D, and digital services that it needed for modern production, not only for film but for video games and virtual reality production. This cluster, situated alongside Silicon Docks, would have a combination of elements to make Dublin Bay Studios a world-class studio location.
The studios would create 1,800 direct and 1,800 indirect jobs for Irish creative talent and for local people in Dublin’s inner city. The best studios in the world are surrounding by housing and the development of Dublin Bay Studios at Poolbeg would complement the very necessary housing provision on the peninsula, providing sustainable jobs on the doorstep and supporting the development of a mixed living and working community.
The development of Dublin Bay Studios at Poolbeg is a once in a lifetime opportunity and one that can drive the growth of Ireland’s creative industries and also provide much needed jobs and regeneration for Dublin’s inner city. Some 60 per cent of the cost of production in our industry is labour cost, and it is the availability of skilled crafts people, technicians, and creative talent on the doorstep in the city centre that will make Dublin Bay Studios the success we know it can be and put Dublin’s Docklands and Ireland on the map internationally as a centre of excellence for media production.
