RTÉ has urged the Minister for Communications, Mr Ahern, to fully implement "at the earliest possible date" the index-linking of the television licence fee.
In a submission to the Minister this week, RTÉ also called on Mr Ahern to "prioritise" examining the prospect of a commercial licence fee for pubs and hotels to increase RTÉ's revenue.
The document was sent to Mr Ahern before a deadline for the receipt of submission on the Forum on Broadcasting report, which was published over a month ago.
RTÉ welcomed the report but said it was crucial that certain recommendation of it were implemented as soon as possible.
On the licence fee, RTÉ said the forum's recommendation to protect its value through indexation or a similar escalator must be implemented speedily and in full "to ensure that the audience's expectation and needs in regard to public service broadcasting can be met and protected". The forum was prohibited from giving its view on the adequacy or otherwise of the level of the current fee.
However, it called for "a series of adjustments over defined periods" to ensure no erosion in value occurred.
RTÉ said it "fully accepted" the recommendation that licence fee adjustments be made in accordance with its performance under a proposed public service broadcasting charter.
Concern, however, was expressed by the RTÉ Authority that the forum appeared to give the proposed new Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) a role in regulating RTÉ's funding.
"This strengthens the need for a completely new body to ensure no conflict of interest between the development of public and commercial broadcasters," RTÉ said.
A spokesman for the Minister said Mr Ahern was to spend a number of months considering such submissions in the context of the report, and that he planned to bring proposals to the Cabinet before the end of the year.
In a related development, the Minister has completed a consultation process on the designation of sporting and cultural events for free-to-air broadcast. A list of designated events is due to be published within a fortnight.
In its submission, RTÉ expressed reservations about the establishment of the BAI, which would assume regulatory functions vested in the RTÉ Authority.
Emphasising the need for the BAI to be independent of the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, RTÉ said the new body "would have to be established, composed and structured in such a way that ensured no conflict of interest between regulation of the public and the private sectors".
On An Post and its role in collecting the licence fee, RTÉ said it regretted the forum rejected its proposal that a tendering process for the job be immediately introduced. The forum said that collection arrangements should only be reviewed after three years if they were then still unsatisfactory.
