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:

The range of measures that the national lottery offers, some of which stem from the licence and some of which stem from further innovations that PLI has introduced over the past seven years, are extensive. The first and foremost – it is really the cornerstone of player protection for the national lottery - is that the national lottery can only sell a subset of products and is explicitly excluded from selling products that are found in mainstream gambling. That stipulation is in the licence. In addition, there are daily, weekly and monthly limits on play in the digital channel as well as self-exclusion limitation options. If someone pays a large-----