""The department now projects that revenue from television licence fee receipts will be higher than initially estimated in the Revised Estimates 2025," a spokeswoman said."
""For that reason, an upward technical adjustment must be made to the €183m allocation to RTÉ in respect of TV licence fee receipts, to allow additional income to be distributed to RTÉ.""
"The Government allocated €225m in public funding to RTÉ for 2025, with €42m coming from Exchequer resources, and the rest from the licence fee."
"Sales of TV licences have rebounded since the impact of the Ryan Tubridy pay controversy finally dissipated."
The department amended 2025 estimates to reflect higher-than-expected television licence fee receipts, allowing an increase above the €183m allocation to RTÉ. The Government allocated €225m in public funding for RTÉ in 2025, with €42m from Exchequer resources and the remainder from the licence fee. RTÉ also generates roughly €160m in commercial revenue annually. TV licence sales recovered after the Ryan Tubridy pay controversy, with 650,629 licences sold in the 10 months to the end of October compared with 661,090 in the same period last year, and October sales rising to 78,330. A supplementary estimate gives €187m as the expected licence-fee contribution to RTÉ.
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