Joe O'Toole (Independent)

In tabling this amendment I want to ensure that no person shall be sent to jail as a consequence of any conviction for non-possession of a TV licence.

We should have a long discussion on TV licences, although not now — Members can relax — because I do not know how this is done. I would like to know from the Minister how much we are paying for all the very entertaining advertisements about people calling to the door to check if people have a TV licence and to frighten the rest of us. Who checks if the chaps in Portlaoise Prison with the plasma screens in their cells have a licence?