Government to reject advice to scrap TV licence fee

An Post, which collects the licence fee, will receive greater funding to identify the roughly 15% of households who do not pay the charge each year.

RTÉ gets around €200m a year from the licence fee. An additional €140m of its €340m annual budget comes from commercial activities such as advertising. Picture: Mark Stedman/RollingNews.ie

The Government is to reject a recommendation to scrap the TV licence and instead fund RTÉ through the exchequer.

The long-awaited Future of Media Commission report, which contains 49 recommendations around how the sector should be funded and reformed, will be published this week after it finally goes to Cabinet on Tuesday.