Susan O'Keeffe (Labour) | Oireachtas source

Mrs. Morrissey has come up with a suggestion. It is always good to see useful suggestions at the Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions and not just problems and complaints. In this case she is talking about potentially taxing lottery winnings. What I think would be useful for the petitioner is if we were to give her the facts and figures surrounding the amount of money that is won by national lottery winners each year and the revenue from the USC, and some information about how taxing certain winnings might affect other winnings, and then see if she would like to come back and engage further or whether that might actually be sufficient information for her. In fact, the amount of money that is won in the national lottery is quite small in comparison to the USC, but it may well be useful for her to see that in order for her to gauge whether she would like to take it further.