Cut TV licence fee and appoint new collector

The alarming admission in the Dáil last week by Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte that the television licence evasion rate has reached 16% is a symptom of catastrophic systemic failure.

A decade ago, the Public Accounts Committee was informed that the evasion rate was less than 12%.

The evasion rate in the UK is 5.2%. Is it time to end the monopoly that the postal service has had on the collection of television licence revenue for over 50 years?