Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 November 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Hold on a second. The advertising for the national lottery is saturation advertising. The operator is not so short of money for advertising that it needs to get 98% of unclaimed prizes to do it. That is not a credible answer. I will come to the operator's accounts in a minute. It has substantial funding in respect of its operational costs. It is not credible that it would also need 98% of the unclaimed prizes of more than €120 million in a six-year period to do that. I have to disagree with Ms Boate on that. In relation to-----