Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
12:30 pm
Ms Fiona O'Shea:
These are the statistics that come from TAM Ireland, the organisation which measures this. We have to take those statistics on face value. There is a change in how people consume media so it is credible that there has been an increase in no-TV homes. A lot of this boils down to the definition under which one must purchase a television licence. That is something we have had a lot of discussions about and it is well documented that the device definition for purchasing a TV licence is narrow. That is of concern to us and we would hope that would be reformed.
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