Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 December 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 19 - Exchequer receipts from National Lottery ticket sales

9:30 am

Mr. Andrew Algeo:

We welcomed that report. It found that, universally, the lottery was running in accordance with its licence and that the effect of it was that prizes to players had risen by an amount in the order of 50% across the five years and the amount that went to good causes rose by an amount just north of 62%. Therefore, the effect of how the national lottery is run-----