Shane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Okay. Returning to the financial situation, Ms Forbes mentioned the evasion of the licence fee. I discussed that with her at the Committee of Public Accounts previously and with respect to a petition some five years ago but nothing has happened since. This committee previously reported on two key proposals, one, to get Revenue to collect the fee in order that we would get the €65 million into the system and, two, to have a flat broadcasting charge, regardless of the people who say they do not have a television yet they have a plasma screen stuck on the wall. In terms of grappling with this issue, this committee's recommendations is the closest we have come to doing so. We have seen from the leaked extracts from The Future of Media Commission report that it is proposed to abolish the licence fee. Does Ms Forbes support that?