Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

Future of Public Service Broadcasting and Impact of Covid-19 on the Media Sector: Discussion

Mr. Adrian Lynch:

I do not have a recommendation today on how it should it be collected. We know it needs to be fixed. I was saying earlier that there are approximately 140,000 no-TV households and approximately 250,000 in avoidance. It is quite a big number. Given all the representations from the witnesses today, we know that if we fix that there is probably €50 million or thereabouts involved. That would help us do many of the things we want to do. There appears to be a strong consensus in this room on the value of public media, so this is something we have to do. I said earlier that there are other models around Europe for how the licence fee is collected. We are not seeking a licence fee increase, just effective collection.

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