Another big loss spells more trouble for RTE
After its latest set of disappointing results, the station is again faced with a funding crisis
‘Licence fee evasion is an ongoing scourge,” said Pat Rabbitte, the then minister of communications, in July 2014.
The following year, his successor, Alex White, declared: “We need a new way to pay for public service broadcasting.”
The latest occupant of the hot seat, Denis Naughten, said last week that the licence fee evasion had to be tackled as a matter of urgency.
“I will bring proposals to government later this year that ...