Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 January 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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The proportion of households that have a television but which are not paying the licence fee has reached 14%. Regarding the figure of 15% we are being given for what are described as non-television households, how has that been reached? How has the information been gathered to be enable it to be stated that 15% of households do not have televisions? That is more than one in seven.