Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----but they were very reluctant to pay their television licence. If they do not pay their television licence this year, they are liable to fines of up to €2,000 and up to two months in prison. The latest figures available to me show that court proceedings were taken against 11,000 individuals in a single year for not paying their TV licence. That should be put in the context of what we heard from the Committee of Public Accounts of deliberate attempts to conceal secret payments to Ryan Tubridy. Will there be consequences for those involved or will this be yet another example of a two-tier system for the haves and the haves-not?

See this speech in context