The Government’s proposed reforms to the RTÉ licence fee will mean continued “death by a thousand cuts” for the media in Ireland, an industry insider ...
The Government’s proposed reforms to the RTÉ licence fee will mean continued “death by a thousand cuts” for the media in Ireland, an industry insider has claimed.
It is expected that the Government will hand responsibility for collection of the licence fee to Revenue - where it will be reduced from its current rate of €160.Speaking to, ShinAwiL production company CEO Larry Bass said he is disappointed that the Government is not considering more radical reform to the current model.
“In some countries, they have actually voted to retain it when it was potentially going to be scrapped; in Switzerland, they had a referendum to retain it. Mr Bass said he understood the public’s anger with RTÉ after the controversies of last year but added that the licence fee is “a really, really important part of our democracy”.
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