Television Licence Fee
Dail Éireann — 2024-05-30
============================================================

Imelda Munster (SF), Louth

If that will be at the end of June and the summer recess is to begin on 11 July, what will be the timeframe for the introduction? I am a tad confused in that, while the Minister has said publicly she is in favour of direct Exchequer funding for RTÉ, the thinking of her political opponents is certainly not in line with hers, as I noted at the committee meeting we had yesterday. My question concerns the timeframe between the end of June and 11 July, when the Dáil is to go into recess, and the opposition the Minister might face from parties in government. Will she allow them to dictate what method is used or what is implemented? Will she not opt for direct Exchequer funding, which she said publicly she would opt for, because of pressure from parties in government? I seek details on the implementation and introduction in the period between the last week of June and the summer recess, which is to begin on 11 July.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2024-05-30/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:53:02+00:00
Sitting date: 2024-05-30