Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The increase in the 2015 Estimate over 2014 takes account of the proposed legislative changes that will allow An Post to access the subscription databases held by service providers such as Sky and UPC. Over the course of the year, we will be introducing legislation to permit access to those databases because An Post, as the licence fee collecting agent, needs to be able to recover licence fees from everybody who is required to pay it. My predecessor, Deputy Rabbitte, made the point that it would be extremely useful to An Post if it could access the databases of persons who own television sets.