Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

They are two separate questions. First, the system for registration at the point of purchase was in place and for whatever reason - I do not know - it did not work. As I have said, I have asked that the Deputy's suggestion would be considered by the working group. Deputy Stanley is correct, and he is right that technology has changed since then. We have Eircode postcodes today, for example, that are far more accurate. The other aspect is that people do connect to a service and the question arises as to why we cannot get access to that. Those people are availing of public service broadcasting also and should have to pay for it, if they are not already. The advice I have received following my appointment as the Minister was that we could not get access to that database, and that my predecessors had sought that access. I suspect the GDPR would actually make it more difficult today.

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