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. Vincent Jennings:

Absolutely not. I hope not. If the Deputy had asked me three months ago if we would be here today discussing matters I would have said, "No. Go away and do something more important", and yet we are here. We cannot look into a crystal ball and say there are no problems. That ball is very cloudy, but we do not want to shake it too much; that is enough of those analogies.

We are very concerned because this man makes his money from the sale of a product. He has built it, along with the national lottery, for 25 or 27 years. This House assisted him in doing so. This House has provided him with that level of income. We cannot have a situation where the brand becomes something that is less than what it is, and in that regard the committee, the national lottery, the retailers and us, the representatives, must work together and be very clear because there is no competition to the national lottery.

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