Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 November 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund

9:30 am

Ms Carol Boate:

Most of my role is around ensuring compliance with the terms of the Act and the licence. We monitor issues such as player protection closely. Certain parts of the licence are intended to evolve over time. We mentioned the advertising code earlier. Player protection is another one. There is a very general clause that the operator must operate with responsible gaming practices and prevent problem playing. That is intended to evolve over time as research and learning and technology changes. In those areas, I tend to have a more direct and more persuasive role.