Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----is pure populism. When I mention replacing the licence fee with a reduced universal fee - up to 70% were paying the RTÉ fee - that was advocated by the Oireachtas committees. Successive Oireachtas committees on media advocated that. It is not just my idea. The Oireachtas committee did it. We supported it in opposition. We did not play the populist card that everything can be paid at the end of the day.

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