Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 November 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund

9:30 am

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Let me clarify again. The regulator produces an annual report. As the regulator, Ms Boate is entitled in her annual report to highlight potential deficiencies within the legislation. We are dealing with a situation that we know about purely because the Comptroller and Auditor General did Ms Boate's job and highlighted to us that there was what I would consider a scandalous anomaly whereby a company that was privatised is using unclaimed prizes, unbeknownst to the public, to advertise back to that same public. I do not know why Ms Boate has never raised that as an issue that needs correcting within the legislation.