TV licence sales continue to plunge, leaving €6.7m shortfall in RTÉ funding

Sales of TV licences in first four months of 2024 are 15 per cent down on same period last yearIn the final week of July 2023, at the height of the RTÉ pay controversy, only 2,077 licences were bought by households, about one-seventh of the figure of 14,151 for the same week in 2023. Bryan O Brien/The Irish Times

That amounts to a shortfall of some €6.7 million in the first four months of 2024 compared to the same period last year. However, the recovery in the number of collections has not been sustained and the figures for 2024 are substantially down compared to the same period last year. Fiona Shaw on Ireland: ‘It is one of the most successful countries in the world. It wasn’t when I left it’

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