Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 12:

In page 12, lines 25 and 26, to delete “shall make a report to the Houses of the Oireachtas each year regarding the regulation of the National Lottery and”.

Section 22 currently provides that the regulator shall be required to make an annual report to the Minister and the Oireachtas committee with functions relating to the national lottery. The amendment provides that he or she shall be required to make a report to the Minister only. The Minister will then be required to lay copies of the regulator's annual report and accounts before each House of the Oireachtas. I emphasise that the regulator will still be required to appear before the Oireachtas committee whose functions relate to the national lottery - in other words, this committee - when requested to do so by the committee. In essence, instead of having a report for the Minister and the Oireachtas there will be one report that the Minister must lay before the Houses.