Fianna Fáil TDs play down spat with Fine Gael minister over new 'Netflix levy'

One Fine Gael source described the vote in favour of the streaming levy as 'Fianna Fáil getting into bed with Sinn Féin to increase the price of streaming services'

Culture minister Patrick O’Donovan at Fine Gael’s parliamentary party “Think In” in Mullingar . Picture: Andrew Downes/xposure

Fianna Fáil TDs have downplayed a dispute with culture minister Patrick O’Donovan after the Oireachtas media committee voted to recommend a new ‘Netflix levy’.

A row erupted on Wednesday afternoon at a private meeting of the Oireachtas media committee, after Fianna Fáil joined the Greens and Sinn Féin to back the recommendation for a new levy.