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

We will follow up on that.

No. 1607B is from Ms Carol Boate, regulator of the national lottery, dated 30 November, providing information requested by the committee on the number of people who commenced a self-exclusion in 2020 and 2021. This was raised at our recent meeting. It is proposed to query why the breakdown of self-exclusionary periods by length is not available and to note and publish the correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputy Carthy and I flagged this matter for discussion. It is important to know why that detail is not available. The regulator sets out in the letter that 1,465 accounts commenced during 2020 but there were 1,515 exclusions during that year. There is a consistent pattern in 2021, with 1,302 accounts commenced and, again, a slightly larger number of exclusions, at 1,339, during that period. The answers given in the letter do not give us the full picture. We will request further information.