Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

PLI is including prize winners and retailers, that is, the supermarkets or wherever the tickets are sold. In my innocence, from the way the advertising is pitched, I took it to mean that 90% was going to community groups and various projects. That is what I believed until recently. I would not take that much interest in the matter but I was surprised to find, when we got the figures and started crunching them, that we were really looking at a figure of between 27% and 28.5% or a little over one quarter of the proceeds from ticket sales and all other sales by the national lottery going to projects and good causes. That is the advertising piece. It is good that the funds go to these projects and obviously I would like to see more going to them. Does Mr. Algeo accept the point that it is little over a quarter that goes to those groups?