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Film criticism put off investors, claims former minister

Eddie Teare among four ex-ministers to give evidence on media development fund

A former Manx Treasury Minister claims constant criticism of the Island's film industry in Tynwald reduced the Island to the status of a pariah.

Eddie Teare was giving evidence as the inquiry by the Public Accounts Committee into the loss of over £25million from the media development fund continues. 

Mr Teare claimed that accusations, made publicly in Tynwald, affected what the Government was hoping to achieve in the film industry:

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