Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion

Mr. Andrew Algeo:

The 47-ball game was designed to meet a customer need as expressed in market research. The market research had a number of game designs tested and the strong customer preference was to have larger jackpots. That is what is brought about by having a larger number of balls. The 52% or the portion of money that goes to prizes and the portion of money that goes to good causes and so forth were not affected in that. It is not a matter of less or more money going to prizes, it is just how frequently the prizes are won and how big the prizes are. That is a balance, and the balance, on the basis of market research at the time, was to increase the quantum of the jackpot while reducing the frequency of the jackpots.

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