Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 December 2021

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

Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion

Mr. Andrew Algeo:

It requires more than one person to claim. For example, since the jackpot has been capped, much larger prizes are being paid to match five and match five plus bonus numbers. There have been 217 winners of those large prizes sharing €18 million over the period since the beginning of October. It is not a very large number of winners.