Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion
4:00 pm
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Is there a case for putting a limit on the number of games? If a company wants to introduce a new game, it could then take one of the existing games out of commission. All one is doing by introducing more and more games is seeking to penetrate the market even further and get more people introduced to gambling on a regular basis. That is the net effect of all this. It is a commercial company now with a very direct interest in getting more people in the country gambling. The more regularly they gamble, the better it is. Having 21 different lottery products seems bananas to me.
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