Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011

12:40 pm

Mr. Aidan Dunning:

The Deputy is correct. There is a commitment in the programme for Government to introduce a public service broadcasting charge, and the Department has been working on that matter. As the Deputy stated, we incorporated it into a type of value for money study because there are many issues that have to be bottomed out, so to speak, regarding how that would be implemented in a way that we could be sure we would get the revenue in because it would be replacing the licence fee. That is an important point. It is not additional; it is a replacement for the licence fee.

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