Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 7 March 2017

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

Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion

4:00 pm

Ms Tara Buckley:

I would not say I am critical but the regulator is in place. What I am saying is that the regulator was appointed in 2014. He needs to step up his game as it is three years down the road. I understand that time was needed to set up and everything else. All I am saying is that I think the regulator needs to be challenged to start producing data and be more public about what he is doing. For all I know, the regulator may be doing so but when one looks at the website one cannot see reports. We were promised a report on the outages but we have not received one. It would be interesting to know whether a report has been compiled and whether it is possible to make it public. The regulator could be more public.