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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is now a regulator.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: All that goes into the National Lottery Fund account is the surplus from the operator. The prizes are paid out and there are administration expenses. There is an agreed percentage included in the legislation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Who will pay out the €12 million that was won last night? Who will writes that cheque? I thought it was the National Lottery which would do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Perhaps the Comptroller might think I am being pedantic - I do not know - but is it the operator's fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: It has nothing to do with this committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The operator transfers money to the National Lottery Fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will ask the secretariat to circulate a copy of the accounts in order that members will understand. The sale was an issue and we want to know what the circular flow of money is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is a new regulator in place.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does the national lottery regulator come under the Department of Justice and Equality?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is a plan that the issue of gambling in general will come within the remit of the national lottery regulator in due course also.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: He is accountable to this committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: On policy issues, he is accountable jto either the Department of Justice and Equality or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Under the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will have a note sent on that issue, if it would be of benefit to the committee. I am not sure off the top of my head, but it is one or other Department. There is a simple answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Good, because it seems there are the operator, the regulator, the National Lottery Fund and the Exchequer which also has a role. Somebody else then pays out the money through the different Departments. The committee would like to know what the flow is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: It might help if the chapter for last year was circulated. We could come back to it if there were queries. We have the accounts for the national lottery regulator. I suspect it may be his first set of accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Possibly, as he has not been there long. The next item concerns the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, for which there is a clear audit opinion. The statement on internal financial controls discloses expenditure of €927,000 on services not openly tendered for. We have to write to the board again straightaway to see what is going on. A letter will be sent to the chairman or...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, the Comptroller and Auditor General has drafted or is working on-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We received a report about a week or so ago on the common themes which had come up. I have seen it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is more recent.