Written answers
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Television Licence Fee
Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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550. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of TV licences purchased, by month, in each of the months January 2022 to February 2024, in tabular form. [11759/24]
Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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TV Licence sales recorded by An Post from January 2022 to February 2024 are set out below.
| - | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 78,050 | 78,389 | 75,183 |
| February | 70,648 | 71,891 | 61,601 |
| March | 74,098 | 79,210 | |
| April | 73,942 | 68,795 | |
| May | 73,624 | 73,598 | |
| June | 75,067 | 73,421 | |
| July | 76,769 | 53,882 | |
| August | 77,736 | 54,664 | |
| September | 93,365 | 66,000 | |
| October | 94,905 | 67,722 | |
| November | 87,750 | 72,248 | |
| December | 71,970 | 64,458 |
The TV licence funds a broad range of public service content, enabling essential news and current affairs programming, as well as supporting the creation of a high quality content on culture, sport, entertainment, music and more. It supports not only RTÉ, but also content created and broadcast by many independent producers on a range of national and local broadcasters. As such it remains critically important that people continue to pay the TV Licence fee. It is not only required by law, it underpins availability of public service content which is of paramount importance to our democracy and society.
Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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551. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of cancelled direct debits for the television licence in each of the months January 2022 to February 2024, in tabular form. [11760/24]
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