Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)

Question 18: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he intends for RTE to play a lead role in driving digital take-up here; if he has mandated RTE to begin a process of review and renewal to ensure, as the organisation itself has noted, that public service broadcasting will survive in the current competitive environment; his views on whether there is a need to review the structure of the television licence fee with the increasing preponderance of non-traditional television set technologies for receiving television services; if he will request RTE to offer new public broadcasting services in view of its continued success and profitability and the high earnings of its presenters and management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26679/06]

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