RTÉ payments

Sir, – On behalf of the 450,000 pensioners of Ireland, might I suggest the Department of Social Protection stops paying the TV licence on our behalf immediately? – Yours, etc,

NOIRIN FARREN,

Co Donegal.

Sir, – Five grand on flip flops! Are they Havaiana a laugh? – Yours, etc,

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RORY J WHELAN,

Co Meath.

Sir, – RTÉ – Ryan Tubridy’s Earnings. – Yours, etc,

LIAM DORAN,

Dublin 22.

A chara, – Another question to be answered: After the summer party, what happened the flip flops? Recycled as merchandise for the musical perhaps? – Yours, etc,

DERMOT SHERLOCK,

Dublin 14.

Sir, – I was in a quandary yesterday, whether to watch tennis balls being lobbed over a net in Wimbledon or insults being lobbed over Montrose at the Oireachtas Committee session. – Yours, etc,

MARGARET TREANOR,

Dublin 13.

Sir, – I wonder what the BIK (benefit in kind) will be for getting the “loan” of a company car for five years. – Yours, etc,

FERGAL McCANN,

Monkstown,

Co Dublin.

Sir, – Abolish the TV licence! I could not agree more. But why replace it with another tax? RTÉ should be obliged to manage its affairs with the revenue it receives from advertising and programme sales.

Newspapers have to manage without State support. Why can’t RTÉ? – Yours, etc,

PETER LYNCH,

Knocklyon,

Dublin 16.