Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed)

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As I said, there are circumstances where this could be completely legal but it would have to happen outside our jurisdiction, and so on.

My second concern is that in the definition of lottery and gaming we would need to ensure that we capture the British definition in prize competitions, if we are proceeding with this, . Perhaps it is captured in what we have but it would need to be clarified because that is the only place that it could happen legally. This is going to grow in size because there have been successful lotteries and I understand this. It is great to see somebody who has won and one such person won a house just last week for €20 in Wicklow, I believe, and fair play to them.

It would be horrible to see a situation where, because this is not regulated, it will come to a point where it will be closed down. Many of these online platforms such as Facebook ask people to have Internet protocol, IP, blockers, which means that if these are imposed, someone will not be able to sell tickets in this jurisdiction and could, therefore, be out a significant amount in an unregulated environment. This is completely unregulated because it does not fall under the Gaming and Lotteries Act or the commissioner in Britain.

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