Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 December 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 19 - Exchequer receipts from National Lottery ticket sales

9:30 am

Mr. Andrew Algeo:

I will provide another example. We close our website and our machines between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. If someone wins a large prize online, we do not put the money back into his or her account. Instead, we send it to his or her house by cheque so as not to encourage recycling. After someone plays five games of digital scratch card online, a pop-up will appear saying that he or she has played five games. If someone is approaching the spend limit that we have asked him or her to apply in addition to the mandatory one, the system will inform the individual of that. I could go on for a long time, but the net-----

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