Rabbitte rules out TV licence fee increase

Rabbitte rules out TV licence fee increase Rabbitte rules out TV licence fee increase

Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte has ruled out any increase in the €160-a-year TV licence fee.

RTÉ director general Noel Curran told The Irish Times last Friday that he would like to see the State broadcaster collect a greater proportion of its funding form public sources as it looks to break even by the year end.

However, this has been quashed by Mr Rabbitte, who said: “I don’t have any intention of raising the TV licence at this stage.”

He did tell Newstalk though that he hoped to raise further revenue by converting the TV licence fee to a “broadcasting charge”, which would take into account people who received communications via laptops, smartphones and tablets rather than televisions.

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