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

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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I welcome the regulator to the meeting and thank her for her opening statement. Has she a response to an injudicious text I received from a constituent to the effect that he inquired whether some change would be made? He asked if a handbrake, lever or switch had been pulled or if some technical or IT change had taken place that might have brought this into focus in June and currently would it be done to level the playing pitch once again, as he would see it. For instance, from here on in, what will change that did not change before? If we have the same technology, draw, lottery and methodology, how will it be possible to change from a non-winnable to a winnable situation without somebody, somewhere, changing the technology? That is what that constituent is saying.