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{{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)It is dependent on a combination of Government funding, commercial income (airtime sales) and support in kind rather than in cash from RTÉ. With input from TG4, RTÉ decides what content (totalling 365 hours) it will provide to TG4 – and it gives TG4 this content annually. It also gives TG4 technical support. RTÉ then costs these contributions up and expresses them as a percentage attribution to TG4 of licence fee income.
As part of the Programme of Public Sector Broadcasting Reform, the Government decided that the RTÉ licence fee adjustment would be reviewed annually. A mechanism to allow for annual changes to the licence fee, using the CPI-X formula (i.e. the Consumer Price Index less a specified figure) was introduced by the Government in 2002.
Operating under the statutory umbrella of RTÉ, TG4 however does not receive its funding from licence fee revenue but rather from Department of Finance discretionary spending.
Fine Gael's communications spokesman, Simon Coveney, said people are being forced to pay for the estimated 16pc of households that are not willing to pay the licence fee. ... Instead of the current intrusive and inefficient system of collecting money to finance public service broadcasting, the Government could finance it through general taxation, Mr Coveney said.
Bhí sé tuillte go géar ag 15 acu a chaith idir 2 agus 14 lá i bpríosún idir 1973 agus 1993 as diúltú ceadúnas teilifíse a íoc le RTE.
Mr. WALSH: ... I had no alternative but to take steps to expedite the collection of licence fees, which is the main source of revenue. There are, I believe, something like 40,000 wireless users in this State. We have so calculated the number at any rate, and of these only about 4,000 have so far been good enough to pay the small licence fee of 10s.
Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. Blaney): There is no separate television licence; a television set is covered by the ordinary wireless receiving licence.
Mr. BLYTHE: ... It is for that reason that I favour the reduction of the crystal set licence fee to ten shillings.
Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. Walsh): ... In the case of a licence fee the poor man who buys a set for 10/- or 12/- has to pay an annual fee of 10/-
Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. Walsh): ...The annual licence fee of one pound was sanctioned by the Minister for Finance in accordance with the recommendation of the Special Committee of the Dáil on Broadcasting, whose report was adopted by the Dáil [on 8 May 1924].
{{cite book}}: External link in |quote=F. O'Malley: Is it not anachronistic for the Department to impose a television licence? Have we gone beyond licensing? Given that the Government is always interested in revenue, is there an alternative suggestion as to how we might raise the revenue if licensing is no longer possible?
Mr. Hayes: When I joined RTÉ I asked whether a television licence was required for a holiday home. ... Up to 2003 that is not how it was interpreted because people did not understand that was the law. ... Senator Finucane: Despite the fact these televisions may only be used for two months in the year [...] I think it is unfair.
Mr Eamon Ryan: ... Historically, 8% of the licence fee receipts have been accounted for by An Post's collection costs. It is a very expensive cost. Just 92% of the sum of over €100 that we pay for a television licence will be expended on broadcasting. It is something that we have to address seriously. I propose a much simpler system of funding which is guaranteed by the State through the general taxation system on an index-linked basis. The fund would be set in stone and would not be open to political interference in the budget each year. The moneys would be provided from central Exchequer expenditure. The fundraising and allocation aspects of such a system would be more efficient. One would not have the huge cost of collecting the licence fee and the endless television advertisements would not have to be paid for. Such advertisements remind people, for example, that they have to have a licence for their fourth television in their country home. The incredibly cumbersome present licence collecting system would no longer be needed. The system I propose would be much fairer. Under the present system, an unemployed person or a person with a very low income, for example, has to pay the exact same licence fee as their next-door neighbour who might be earning €500,000 per year. The licence fee is a regressive stealth tax.
Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. Walsh): The fee for an ordinary wireless receiving licence in the Saorstát is £1 per annum
The PRESIDENT: After the transfer of the Post Office Services from the British Government on 1 April 1922, permits for the installation and working of Wireless receiving apparatus were issued by the Irish Postmaster-General to experimenters and other persons who complied with the conditions laid down as regards the apparatus and aerial to be used and on payment of a fee of 10s. a year. On the outbreak of the disturbances in the country in July, 1922, these permits were withdrawn at the request of the Military Authorities and all persons in possession of wireless apparatus were required to surrender it to the Post Office for safe custody. The sale, importation or manufacture of wireless apparatus was also prohibited. This general prohibition against the use of wireless apparatus has not yet been removed. For some time past, however, special permits have been given on specified conditions with the approval of the military authorities for wireless receiving demonstrations at fetes and other entertainments organised for charitable and public objects.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)1753 RTÉ is to get a reduction of €10m in licence fee revenue in 2011, a reduction of 5% =PDF the 2010 figure. According to the Department of Communications, this is to replace some central funding to TG4 with licence fee funding.
Operating under the statutory umbrella of RTÉ, TG4 however does not receive its funding from licence fee revenue but rather from Department of Finance discretionary spending.
Mr Eamon Ryan: ... Historically, 8% of the licence fee receipts have been accounted for by An Post's collection costs. It is a very expensive cost. Just 92% of the sum of over €100 that we pay for a television licence will be expended on broadcasting. It is something that we have to address seriously. I propose a much simpler system of funding which is guaranteed by the State through the general taxation system on an index-linked basis. The fund would be set in stone and would not be open to political interference in the budget each year. The moneys would be provided from central Exchequer expenditure. The fundraising and allocation aspects of such a system would be more efficient. One would not have the huge cost of collecting the licence fee and the endless television advertisements would not have to be paid for. Such advertisements remind people, for example, that they have to have a licence for their fourth television in their country home. The incredibly cumbersome present licence collecting system would no longer be needed. The system I propose would be much fairer. Under the present system, an unemployed person or a person with a very low income, for example, has to pay the exact same licence fee as their next-door neighbour who might be earning €500,000 per year. The licence fee is a regressive stealth tax.
Mr. WALSH: ... I had no alternative but to take steps to expedite the collection of licence fees, which is the main source of revenue. There are, I believe, something like 40,000 wireless users in this State. We have so calculated the number at any rate, and of these only about 4,000 have so far been good enough to pay the small licence fee of 10s.
Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. Blaney): There is no separate television licence; a television set is covered by the ordinary wireless receiving licence.
{{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)Mr. BLYTHE: ... It is for that reason that I favour the reduction of the crystal set licence fee to ten shillings.
Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. Walsh): ... In the case of a licence fee the poor man who buys a set for 10/- or 12/- has to pay an annual fee of 10/-
Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. Walsh): ...The annual licence fee of one pound was sanctioned by the Minister for Finance in accordance with the recommendation of the Special Committee of the Dáil on Broadcasting, whose report was adopted by the Dáil [on 8 May 1924].
{{cite book}}: External link in |quote=Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. Walsh): The fee for an ordinary wireless receiving licence in the Saorstát is £1 per annum
The PRESIDENT: After the transfer of the Post Office Services from the British Government on 1 April 1922, permits for the installation and working of Wireless receiving apparatus were issued by the Irish Postmaster-General to experimenters and other persons who complied with the conditions laid down as regards the apparatus and aerial to be used and on payment of a fee of 10s. a year. On the outbreak of the disturbances in the country in July, 1922, these permits were withdrawn at the request of the Military Authorities and all persons in possession of wireless apparatus were required to surrender it to the Post Office for safe custody. The sale, importation or manufacture of wireless apparatus was also prohibited. This general prohibition against the use of wireless apparatus has not yet been removed. For some time past, however, special permits have been given on specified conditions with the approval of the military authorities for wireless receiving demonstrations at fetes and other entertainments organised for charitable and public objects.