60 people a day now facing prosecution for not paying TV licence as rate soars in wake of RTÉ payments scandal

by forfucksakeagain

28 comments

  1. i mean they know the law , if they dont want to pay ,. dont own a tv

  2. The amount we are going to waste prosecuting them probably exceeds the license cost 20:1 at a minimum

    Man the government is stupid. We have a surplus. Just pay it from taxes and fire all the inspectors.

  3. The problem is that RTE needs to justify its existence and cost. It’s failing to do that and the public are voting with their wallets.

  4. I’ve a great idea lads, lets hold a referendum on disbanding the RTÉ.

  6. I neither want or use RTE I’m anyway. Why should I pay?

  7. A lot of people actually go to court, it’s often a full day of just TV licence cases. A lot of people don’t bother showing up for it, which is stupid because they get fined anyway.

  9. Don’t open the door to them. Rte hate this one simple trick.

  10. I haven’t had a telly in 10 years. Bought a gaf last year. They have sent 3 letters and are now demanding a declaration that I don’t have a telly or they’re going to bring me to court. I’m not spending the price of a stamp and envelope. They can fuck off and issue a bench warrant. 

  11. Don’t give them your name. If they surprise you on the doorstop just say you don’t have a tv and close the door.

  12. No name on the letter, in the bin it goes. You want me to pay your wages, you better damn work for it

  13. From the comments im a tad confused. Are there adverts? Here in the UK there are none on the BBC. Also can you still own a TV and not pay it? Here in the UK so long as your not watching the BBC (including BBC iPlayer) or watch live TV you can get an exemption. Like having a TV for video game consoles etc.

  14. What can they do? They’re not going to jail people. Tell them to fuck off.

  15. If a party said they’d bin the charge, they would win themselves a lot of votes for relatively little money.

  16. I never open my door, anyone visiting me always rings beforehand.

  20. Most houses have home broadband, most people don’t care about RTE especially because we have streaming services that allow us to pick what we want to watch.

    Get rid of your TV and get a computer monitor. I have about 4x 32″ computer monitors throughout my house, I use various streaming services on and off, some months I get netflix or disney+ or paramout or prime, it cost next to nothing, 15 Euro per month for something to watch that is more appealing than what they broadcast on RTE.

    With the money you save from not having to buy a TV license, you can get all your streaming services for the year, if you’re not a big tech house like I am, get yourself an old console and a large computer monitor, get a streaming service or even just buy movies/TV shows on youtube, you don’t have to support RTE, I haven’t watched them in going on 10 years, TV license inspector knocks at my door “Yeah sure come in”, “Yeah yeah we don’t watch TV, we just using streaming services”, “I mean you try get RTE on that screen, there’s no channels, it’s just HDMI or DVI inputs”, “Sound, sure chat to you in a few years when you’re doing the rounds again, have a good one!”

  21. I can see the fee potentially being collected through pay just like USC, probably be €2/€2.50 a week, it won’t be the €160 as it is now as more people will be caught under this potential way.

  23. Surprising, people don’t want to pay for a service that abuses the money for the benefit of everyone but the tax payer

  25. You know if everyone just stops paying for it, they can’t prosecute everyone lol

  26. One thing I never get when I immigrated here is why people have to pay a license to own a tellly, later on I understand that it is used for RTE’s fundings but dont they already have adverts that do that? alot of countries around the world dont do this…

  27. Siún Ní Raghallaigh should have being forced to resign as soon as we learned she rushed Dee Forbes out the door without oversight from Catherine Martin. It’s literally a text book example of all Irish institutions. Find a scapegoat and hush them up with some cash, apologise in public then appear to make reform. Then go back to juicing the company

  28. This article almost contrasts the Irish Times one.

    This article is horseshit. The wording and everything else about it. This was my final wake up call to stop even looking at the herald/independent.

    I am not a fan of the IT either. But this article is fucking poor on another level.

    Ralph Riegel brings to journalism what Ali Dia brought to the premier league.

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