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APPENDIX XXVII.

RADIO AND TV LICENCES: ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN

An Cléireach,

An Coiste um Chuntais Phoiblí.

During my examination by the Public Accounts Committee on the 2nd March, 1967, I undertook to furnish a note on the financial results of the advertising campaign aimed at holders of unlicensed radio and television sets which was conducted in the Spring of 1965.

It is estimated that about 6,000 new radio licences and 9,600 combined radio and television licences were taken out as a result of the advertising campaign and the inspections which followed it. This represents an increase of the order of £50,000 per annum in Broadcasting Licence Fees.

As members of the Committee are aware, the Broadcasting Authority Acts, 1960 to 1966, provide for the payment of an annual grant to Radio Telefís Éireann equivalent to the gross receipts from Broadcasting Licence Fees less the costs of collection and any expenditure incurred by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs on suppressing interference with wireless telegraphy. In practice, the procedure is that the gross receipts from licence fees are paid in full into the Exchequer, the costs of collection, etc., are charged to the Vote for Posts and Telegraphs, and a grant equal to the net receipts that is, the gross receipts less the costs referred to, is paid to Radio Telefís Éireann by way of the same Vote.

An Roinn Poist agus Telegrafa.

20 Márta, 1967.