Television licensing in the Republic of Ireland information
Overview of the television licensing system of Ireland
The physical licence is a document issued by An Post
In Ireland, a television licence is required for any address at which there is a television set. Since 2016, the annual licence fee is €160.[1] Revenue is collected by An Post, the Irish postal service. The bulk of the fee is used to fund Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), the state broadcaster. The licence must be paid for any premises that has any equipment that can potentially decode TV signals, even those that are not RTÉ's. The licence is free to anyone over the age of 70, some over 66, some Social Welfare recipients, and the blind. The fee for the licences of such beneficiaries is paid for by the state. The current governing legislation is the Broadcasting Act 2009, in particular Part 9 "Television Licence" and Chapter 5 "Allocation of Public Funding to RTÉ and TG4". Devices which stream television via internet do not need licences, nor do small portable devices such as mobile phones.[2]
The FG-Labour coalition planned to replace the television licence with a Public Service Broadcasting Charge on all primary residences and certain businesses.[3] A public consultation document on the plan was published in August 2013.[3] Asked in December 2014 about the delay in switching from the licence to the new charge, Minister of State Joe McHugh said the government would "be taking more time to work out a very complex system".[4] Implementation of the broadcasting charge was postponed in 2015 but returned to the political agenda in 2017.[5] In August 2019, Richard Bruton, the Minister for Communications, announced that from 2024 the licence fee would be replaced by "a device independent broadcasting charge", with implementation and enforcement details to be worked out in the interim.[6][7]
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"Personal Customers / TV licence". An Post. Retrieved 2 May 2008.
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^ ab"Consultation on Public Service Broadcasting Charge". Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. 27 August 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
^"Television Licence Fee Collection (Continued)". Dáil Éireann debates. 11 December 2014. p. 8. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
^JCCCAE 2017; "'We either value journalists or we don't': TV and device fee could rise to €175". Irish Examiner. 10 November 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
^Ó Cionnaith, Fiachra (2 August 2019). "'No way to avoid it': Everything you need to know about the new 'broadcasting charge'". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
^"Minister Bruton Publishes Broadcasting Bill" (Press release). Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. 2 August 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
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