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:
Yes. In a twist, the good causes then fund advertising, such is the structure of lotteries. Yes, unclaimed prizes go to good causes and then the regulator decides how much of good causes funding does not go to good causes at all and is used for advertising instead. That figure in total related to about £160 million in the most recent figures.