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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 8 Apr 1987

Vol. 371 No. 9

Written Answers. - Wexford Television Reception.

52.

asked the Minister for Justice if he is aware that the installation of a radio transmitter at Wexford Garda station has resulted in severe interference with television reception in the immediate locality; and the plans he has to rectify the situation.

I understand from the Garda authorities that two complaints about interference with television reception have been received from the area referred to in the question and that provided an aerial appropriate to receive RTE signals from Mount Leinster is used, there is no interference to RTE reception but only to reception from more distant television transmitting stations.

The position, as emphasised in replies to previous parliamentary questions of this nature on 19 November 1985 and 1 July and 6 November 1986, is that the radio equipment and transmission channels being used by the Garda meet with the approval of the appropriate licensing authority. In the circumstances, the Garda authorities cannot accept responsibility for television reception problems which arise primarily from inadequate television signal strengths.

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