Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I expect to bring forward the legislation on Eircode in the coming weeks. No date is set for any particular Bill on broadcasting to be brought before the House in the immediate period. I remind the Deputy that my predecessor and the programme for Government did not propose to introduce a new burden on any individual but in fact to replace the television licence fee with a new broadcasting service charge. There was no proposal for a new financial burden on anyone.

The proposal is one of the issues I am dealing with in a broader memo to the Government in the coming weeks setting out my thinking on the funding of public service broadcasting and related matters. If legislation arises from it, as it probably will, it will not be published until the latter half of the year. No date has been set for the publication of the gambling control Bill.

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