BravoSierra wrote: » He didn't enter my home. They have your name printed on list. It corrosponds with an An Post database.
BravoSierra wrote: » But what does the money go towards? In what way does me owning a set cost the government so that I in return must recompensate them?
Owenw wrote: » If you only had ,say, a video projector or lcd display (no built-in tuner) and just a DVD player, are you legally exempt from paying the license fee?
Every household, business or institution in Ireland with a television or equipment capable of receiving a television signal (using an aerial, satellite dish, cable or other means) must have a television licence. A television licence is a certificate that states that you have paid the appropriate fee to the government and contributed to the cost of public service broadcasting in Ireland. Your television licence in Ireland is issued for 1 year, after which it must be renewed again.
Each year, the government provides a grant to RTE (the national broadcasting organisation), which is funded by your television licence fee. RTE has responsibilities to deliver public service programmes in Ireland. The television licence fee is collected by An Post on behalf of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, who has responsibility for broadcasting policy in Ireland.
You do not require a television licence to watch television on your computer or mobile phone. However, you do require a licence if the computer is used together with any other apparatus to receive a signal.
Penalties Conviction for non-payment of a television licence (first offence) is a fine of €635. If you are convicted a second time for not paying your television licence, you will be fined €1,268 and your television and signal equipment will be confiscated.
AnMoralltach wrote: » Do you have to let the inspector inside your door?Like can you tell them that you don't have a tv to buy some time?In fairness i'm a student and really wouldnt have the money!
Donny5 wrote: » That'd be my understanding, Owen. I was always told it was the tuner that counts.
the boss of me wrote: » Having said all that.., is all the hassle really worth €180 a year ?
krudler wrote: » Its ridiculous we have to pay a licence fee when RTE has adverts on it, isnt that the reason the BBC has it? no ads so needs other income
Owenw wrote: » Interesting.... I'd sooner buy €180 worth of DVD & Blu-Ray boxsets a year than pay RTE or Sky. No ads, top quality sound and video
Nehaxak wrote: » You could also take it to the European courts. At the very least you can make a complaint against RTE to the EU on the grounds that they are advertising while also pulling in a license fee. This is not allowed to be done under the European law and so RTE are fined every single year because of this but they still advertise and still break the European law because the fines are so low and meaningless to them. Would prefer to see the fine raised to 50 million Euro for the first offense and triple in size for every year thereafter that they continue to advertise and break the EU law. If they raise the fines to 50 million Euro+ I might even vote yes in the next referendum
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pablomakaveli wrote: » RTE have produced programs like Celebrity Farm, Failte Towers, Celebrity Jigs and Reels, Katherine Lynchs Wonderwomen......why in the name of god should we have to pay money so RTE can make this kind of ****e.:mad:
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Nehaxak wrote: » Oh and no, it's not bullshiz in regards RTE being fined and breaking EU law with regards the TV license.
Nehaxak wrote: » It is also against European law to be fined for not having a TV license. There are a number of test cases in this regards being brought to the European court by people in the UK. I'll post more info on this if I can find it out there but generally EU law and regulations are hard to quote from the "interwebs" as they're not that accessible in this way. Oh and no, it's not bullshiz in regards RTE being fined and breaking EU law with regards the TV license. They are regularly fined every year on this. They should not be taking License fee money AND advertising. It's one or the other or none at all. At a very base level it's also against EU competition law.
darling.x wrote: » Its stupidity that we need to have a license for every tv that we have in the house. I've a tv on my phone. I can pick the four tv channels. Its a japanese phone. It'll be a cold day in hell before i'd get a license for my phone.
darling.x wrote: » Its stupidity that we need to have a license for every tv that we have in the house. .
Nehaxak wrote: » I'll post more info on this if I can find it .
jimmycrackcorm wrote: » If we didn't pay the licence fee then all we would ever get is US and British tv shows. It's not like TV3 does a lot of Irish based programming. It would be much better if the money was independently used solely for Irish based programming and then auctioned off commercially to RTE/TV3/C4/UTV. (Remember C4 did Fr. Ted when RTE turned it down - worth paying the licence fee for alone imho).
luckat wrote: » (Though I think I read that Graham Linehan said RTE had never turned down Father Ted, actually.)
Fallen Buckshot wrote: » only tv license?? .. what about teapot license or computer license
