Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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534. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of television licences issued in 2015. [31657/16]

Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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535. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of exempted households for the television licence in 2015. [31658/16]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 534 and 535 together.

The total number of licences issued in 2015 was 1,433,752.  This included direct sales by An Post of 1,018,444 and 415,308 free licences issued by the Department of Social Protection to qualifying applicants under that Department's Household Benefits Scheme.

An Post received 7,205 Statutory Declaration forms under Section 147 of the Broadcasting Act 2009 from households indicating that they had no television set.