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:

Separate Gibraltar-based gambling organisations have spotted that they can sell people a ticket to gamble on a lottery anywhere in the world and present it to people as if they are buying a ticket for that lottery. One is not because there is no association with the actual lottery. The UK is looking at making sure that if one presents an opportunity to play the UK lottery in the UK to a UK citizen that one needs a licence from the UK Gambling Commission.