Television license fee sales fell by €2.7 million; People are still reluctant to pay

Television license fee sales fell by €2.7 million in July. Figures provided by the Media Department showed that license fee sales continued to decline in the last week of the month, with 3,490 fewer licenses sold. In the four weeks of July, 297 fewer licenses were sold.

A TV license in Ireland costs €160 and is used for things like state television. A per-home license is mandatory for devices such as TV streaming in each home. And this is a source of income for the government and people have been raising their voices against it for some time. Those who have ruled regardless have been given a boost by recent lawsuits over the "Ryan Tubridy Show" controversy over overpayments made to Ryan Tubridy for the "Late Night" show. So many people don't pay €160 for a TV license in Ireland now.

A parliamentary commission has asked Ireland's television network provider RTÉ to publish a number of reports. Grant Thornton report on payments to Ryan Tubridy 2017 to 2019, an internal RTÉ review into Tubridy payments 2017 to 2019, a report on Toy Show the Musical, voluntary exit schemes in 2017 and 2021. Documents to be available are…

The provider's statement notes that "TV license revenue is collapsing and 1,800 people are employed by RTE". "At the same time, they are waiting for several reports that have been promised to the public for weeks at this point". So people are still reluctant to pay 160 euros for a TV license because of this extravagant attention.