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

We are moving onto that now. There is a typo in the speaking note. It is No. R2283 from Ms Orla Twomey, chief executive of the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland, dated 10 January 2024. It provides the decision of the complaints committee in relation to a complaint from this committee about the national lottery. It arose from our hearing with the national lottery. After considering the detail of the complaint and the advertiser's response, the complaints committee considered that a statement was warranted in this case. The ASAI states:

In future, where similar claims are made on the percentage of money that goes back to the community, a qualification should be included to state that the prize money referred to may include unclaimed prizes which could be returned to the advertisers.

I propose that we note and publish this item of correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. The complainant's statement has also been published on the ASAI's website.

Representatives of the national lottery came before the committee last year. The issue arose that there was clearly misleading advertising. We made the complaint. It is important that people who play national lottery games and the general public know that the information they receive in the advertising is accurate. It was not accurate and it was misleading. This is the proof of it. It is important that the Committee of Public Accounts fleshed it out and got it corrected. Do other members wish to speak on this?