Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 April 2018

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

Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Derek Donohoe:

We have access to the national lottery's online gaming system, which means we can visit it in real time and see sales as they are happening and being recorded. Separately, there is an independent control system which is used to ensure the veracity of the gaming system, to which we also have access. We have access in real time to both of those systems. In addition, we have access to the national lottery's management accounts, internal audit reports and governance reports. In terms of financial information, it is hard to imagine that there is any information to which we do not have access.