Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "In Ireland, a television licence is required for any address at which there is a television set. In 2014, the annual licence fee is €160. Revenue is collected by An Post, the Irish postal service. The bulk of the fee is used to fund Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), the state broadcaster. The licence must be paid for any premises that has any equipment that can potentially decode TV signals, even those that are not RTÉ's. The licence is free to anyone over the age of 70, some over 66, some Social Welfare recipients, and the blind. The fee for the licences of such beneficiaries is paid for by the state. The current governing legislation is the Broadcasting Act 2009, in particular Part 9 \"Television Licence\" and Chapter 5 \"Allocation of Public Funding to RTÉ and TG4\". Devices which stream television via internet do not need licenses, nor do small portable devices such as mobile phones.The current government plans to replace the television licence with a Public Service Broadcasting Charge on all primary residences and certain businesses. A public consultation document on the plan was published in August 2013. Asked in December 2014 about the delay in switching from the licence to the new charge, Minister of State Joe McHugh said the government would \"be taking taking more time to work out a very complex system\". As of 2016 the proposal has been shelved indefinitely but may be examined again by the incoming government."@en }
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- Television_licensing_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland abstract "In Ireland, a television licence is required for any address at which there is a television set. In 2014, the annual licence fee is €160. Revenue is collected by An Post, the Irish postal service. The bulk of the fee is used to fund Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), the state broadcaster. The licence must be paid for any premises that has any equipment that can potentially decode TV signals, even those that are not RTÉ's. The licence is free to anyone over the age of 70, some over 66, some Social Welfare recipients, and the blind. The fee for the licences of such beneficiaries is paid for by the state. The current governing legislation is the Broadcasting Act 2009, in particular Part 9 \"Television Licence\" and Chapter 5 \"Allocation of Public Funding to RTÉ and TG4\". Devices which stream television via internet do not need licenses, nor do small portable devices such as mobile phones.The current government plans to replace the television licence with a Public Service Broadcasting Charge on all primary residences and certain businesses. A public consultation document on the plan was published in August 2013. Asked in December 2014 about the delay in switching from the licence to the new charge, Minister of State Joe McHugh said the government would \"be taking taking more time to work out a very complex system\". As of 2016 the proposal has been shelved indefinitely but may be examined again by the incoming government.".