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 Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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I will move on to the issue of the licence fee. Ms Forbes has spoken on a number of occasions about an increase in the licence fee and value for money. An Post is involved in the collection of fees and approximately 15% of people now say that they are not accessing the service. Can there be a better structure put in place for the collection of licence fees than what currently is there and has that been discussed with An Post at any stage?