Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am pleased that the Minister sees the point I am making. I have been following this matter for some time and raised it at the meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts last week. The Comptroller and Auditor General agreed with my point that there was a lack of traceability and stated he could not trace the money because there was no mechanism in place in some line Departments. Members of the public do not realise that grants for disabled people and the mobility aid grants scheme depend on their playing the lotto. It should not be the case that they are dependent on lottery sales. Now that the Minister has privatised the national lottery, it is important that people know where the proportion of money from the national lottery for good causes is spent. This link has been broken and must be re-established.

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