Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion

1:50 pm

Mr. Brian Purcell:

The audit took place in 2012, as indicated. Then the audit was completed and the findings were outlined. At that point the decision was taken, as I indicated earlier, because of the review of our expenditure, and that was simply one line of the expenditure. Given what we had identified, the audit raised a concern that the costs associated with the Rehab lottery were very high, including the issues the Deputy mentioned about percentages, etc. I should point out that there was full co-operation with Rehab during the course of the conduct of that audit. In late 2012, the decision was then taken that we would move to reduce the amount of money available for the charitable lotteries fund over the next period of time.

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