Scrap RTÉ and make licence fee worth it

The comments made by Minister Pat Rabbitte concerning the broadcasting charge are insulting to the intelligence, to put it mildly.

First of all, from where does he derive the figure of €25m in evasion? That would be 156,250 homes evading the TV licence, by the way. Where are the feared TV-licence inspector bogeymen that we were assured would catch all evaders?

If they know who they are, why haven’t the inspectors already paid a visit to all homes not paying a licence (issuing fines, etc) or are they the latest silent victims of the cutbacks? What about households that simply do not have a TV and do not access such content any other way or do not think the so-called national broadcaster worth watching?