See the full list below Most people in Ireland know the rule, if you have a TV at home, you’re legally obliged to pay a €160 TV licence fee. However, a lot of people don’t realise that there is an exception to the rule which could exempt them from paying that irritable TV licence fee […]

2 months ago

Evasion rates in Ireland are the highest in Europe. The government have allocated €6 million in funding to An Post so that they can carry out more stringent crackdowns on TV licence fee evasion. In a press release posted on the government website earlier this week, Media Minister Catherine Martin outlined “investment in a new database […]

1 year ago

The party had been seeking a legal amnesty from prosecution for those who have not paid the fee. A Sinn Féin motion which called for the TV licence to be scrapped immediately was defeated in the Dáil this week. The party had proposed that the requirement to pay a TV licence fee be done away […]

2 years ago

Further losses have been revealed for August. An RTÉ bailout in October’s budget may cost as much as €50 million due to the severe drop in TV licence revenue from the public, according to the Irish Independent. The government expected to pay somewhere in the region of €15 – €20 million in October’s budget, but […]

2 years ago

In the wake of a new report about RTÉ’s finances, the Media Minister has said not paying for a TV licence is “damaging”. As a new report examining RTÉ’s barter account has been published, Minister for Media Catherine Martin used the occasion to emphasise the importance of paying for a TV licence. The interim report […]

2 years ago

Figures suggest it will lead to a “serious funding crisis”. There was been a significant drop in the number of households renewing their licence fee in the wake of the RTÉ scandal this month. The figures represent a loss of nearly €1 million in income – a drop of about 30%, according to a report […]

2 years ago