Fine Gael MEPs urging Minister to meet organisation pushing for levy on TV streaming services

Fine Gael MEPs have urged Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan to meet an organisation pushing for a levy on streaming services like Netflix, telling him “Irish content doesn’t grow on trees”.

Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) met the four MEPs – Regina Doherty, Seán Kelly, Maria Walsh and Nina Carberry – last month.

It is part of a coalition that supports the introduction of a content production levy on TV streamers to fund Irish productions

Such levies are in place in some other European countries.