Ms Tríona Quill:

The Deputy is absolutely right. The vast majority of community stations are below the €250,000 limit but when the various sources of revenue, including various grants and community employment and so on, of a couple of stations were added up, their income exceeded €250,000 so they would not have been exempt from the levy. The €250,000 threshold was initially put forward in the hope that it would exempt all community broadcasters but then it was found that it might not exempt a couple of them, so we are now proposing that there will not be a threshold.