TV licence collection tender ?

John Joe Jones

Is the contract for television licence collection ever put out to tender ? I imagine it would have to be under European law but I have never heard of it going out to tender.

icdg

From what I gather, no it's not, the Government have considered doing so a number of times and RTE itself would prefer if it did, but for political reasons it remains with An Post and that seems unlikely to change at the moment.

Elmo

icdg wrote: »

From what I gather, no it's not, the Government have considered doing so a number of times and RTE itself would prefer if it did, but for political reasons it remains with An Post and that seems unlikely to change at the moment.

I thought that the people who brought us Eircode where being considered for the role.

mikeym

Elmo wrote: »

I thought that the people who brought us Eircode where being considered for the role.

They do the UK as far as I know.(capita)

naasrd

Are the An Post inspectors on a bonus scheme for catching evaders? On our road the other day it looked like a guy from The Viper's crew was checking a few houses. Wearing shorts with a tattoo on his leg.

The Parish Priest.

Dee Forbes was talking about this yesterday, saying its on the cards for later this year, the same thing has been said on and off for at least two decades but nothing ever happens

icdg

We don't drag up old threads, and I'd prefer if all the RTE discussion stayed together