'The model has to change' - How Ireland can learn from other countries to fund the licence fee.
A change to Ireland's licence fee model hasn't happened yet, as it is going to annoy a lot of people.Columnist Lorcan Nyhan was speaking after Taoiseach Leo Varadkar suggested it"isn’t fair" that the majority of TV licence revenue goes to RTÉ.Newstalk Breakfast"If we look at how it's collected, we're currently using the licence fee model - about 85% of people pay it," he said.
"That strikes me as a good model for getting the big fund: there's a specific ring-fenced tax, anybody who has to pay it pays it, corporates have to pay it as well and you get this big pool of money. "Digital has totally changed everything... the landscape has changed, which means the model has to change.
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