Mr. Aidan Dunning:

Yes. Obviously RTE and the other beneficiaries of the licence fee are concerned by this development. With RTE, we have established a group with An Post which meets regularly to address the problems that are emerging in the shortfall of licence fee collection. There has been a strong advertising campaign run by An Post in that area.

Compared to earlier years, the figure for social welfare recipients was frozen at the 2010 figure of €57 million. In other words, even though additional people are getting entitlements to the TV licence fee for free, RTE and An Post are not being reimbursed any more in respect of that increment. Clearly, there is no increased increment in respect of that.