Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 March 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Operations and Functioning of National Lottery: Discussion

2:15 pm

Mr. Dermot Griffin:

The agents have said different things at different stages in their presentations. Mr. Joe Tierney, Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association, is on the ground and feels there are urban myths about some of these issues. We have the facts about system availability. I accept there have been some unfortunate events that have been given media coverage. In general, one does not complete 72 million transactions, have everything balanced and sales ahead of expectations if there are problems of such a fundamental nature with the system. There are no such problems. We have a system that is fully tested as outlined earlier. We always said there would be transition bedding-in period which would last the first quarter of 2015. There are issues we need to address to complete the service like the ticket checkers.

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