Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

I bought my TV off my mate who moved here from Scotland. It is a smart TV but doesnt have saorview and therefore I can not access RTE television and so I do not have a TV license.

With its inability to pick up TV signals, if I was (somehow) legally directed to get a TV license, I would throw it into the black bin, and go out and buy a 42" monitor. The more people who similar, eventually RTE will have to change.

There was some spoofer on with Pat Kenny earlier who was saying that license purchases are down 20% since Tubsgate, but that this decision should bring license uptake back to normal levels. I burst out laughing wondering "Based on what?". The trust remains gone. Why would anyone pay 160 a year while that trust is absent.

Sound and Vision which was originally funded via the licence fee, this was increased during covid using exchequer funding.

Also there is a small fund for News media, across broadcast, online, local, national and print, again started during covid.

The Dept of Foreign Affairs also have a small fund, if you see VMTV in the US you know they are using DFA money to fund the trip, RTÉ have 3 correspondents from this fund.

On corresponedents and Emma Kelly, how did their Washington correspondent do during all the happenings in the US?

Jaysus Catherine Martin must have been awful if even government spokesperson and Mr Angry Fionnan Sheehan is saying it was an "abject performance".

Emma O'Kelly should be the first to be made redundant. She does nothing.

You can guarantee 750m is only the start of it too, we have seen with every expenditure this government makes they run way over. RTE will be back with the paw out and the exchequer will oblige.

It's a sickening amount of money for something most of us couldn't care less about.

No changes whatsoever. Massive failures and falling ratings and Catherine Martin gives even more money to RTE.

Do you notice how they decided on 3 years and not 4, wonder why they didn't give RTÉ some more security in the knowledge of what they'd be getting over 4 years.

What's a billion between friends!

If only everyone could just stop paying the license from today there is nothing they could do.

Unfortunately we just roll over as a nation ince again.

I see that they are also looking into the possibility of making the households where they don’t have details of the occupants to sign a statutory declaration that they don’t have a television.

Massive overreach and breach of our Constitutional right to privacy. The State has no right to ask me about the contents of my home unless they suspect criminal activity and they need a warrant to enter it. They may go back to the drawing board on this idea.
GDPR means that the records have to be up to date too so you’d have to submit that thing every year. Will you have to tell them when you move? Do you have to tell them where you’ve moved to and if there is a television there too? Not a runner in my book.

We need public service broadcasting, even more so in this day and age. We don’t want the only news feed we see to be determined by some tech bros in California and China. But the licence fee system is badly out of date.