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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: Has Ms Boate seen that balance slightly changing all the time?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: As a regulator, is Ms Boate concerned, given where we as a Legislature are going, by this proliferation?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: I was expecting to see one. I was not expecting to see-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: Access has changed totally since then.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: It is just a different way of doing the same thing. I went on to a couple of gambling websites. You can start off at 0.5 cent. You have to start off here at €2 and can go up, if I am not wrong, to €15 per game.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: Sorry, €10 per game. That game will be over in a matter of a minute or less.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: They are highly addictive.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: I commend that. That is one thing I commend.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: Do all gambling websites not have that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: I think that is on most gambling sites as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: Ms Boate keeps saying, "So they say", and I agree with her but, if anything, what she has said enhances my point. It is nothing to do with the witnesses personally but this needs one overarching regulator. Otherwise, there will be inconsistencies in approach. From a legislative point of view, I cannot see how we can distinguish gambling products, given the access now, and have different...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: This place bailed out the banks in 24 hours. We would be well able to manage that.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (17 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: 183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of chief fire officers, senior assistant chiefs and fire officers that are in the retained fire service across the country by county council and by grade; and the details of all salary ranges of all grades referenced above. [57064/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that citizens who are relying on illness benefit are not entitled to the cost-of-living bonuses that were announced as part of the next Budget. [57149/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that teenagers and young adults who would be in receipt of the disability allowance but who enter training with an organisation (details supplied) through the National Learning Network centres and have to switch over to a training allowance which is the same weekly value as the disability allowance which is...

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: I welcome our guests. I think I am the only one here who was on the committee a few years ago when Bord na gCon, as it was then known, was in front of us. There were two meetings which we do not forget lightly. I am glad to see there have been some changes, with a new financial controller coming in a couple of years ago. I understand a new commercial director has been appointed and will...

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: What if SIS is deducted?

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: It is generated because of that. If those are all added up, the direct contribution to the prize money is approximately €4 million rather than €8.1 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: I know what Mr. Tuohey is saying and respect that. I am trying to get to how much from the horse and greyhound racing fund, which contributes to the organisation, is used for paying prize money versus running the organisation. By my calculation, while one can argue the toss over a couple of those contributions, that fund, which was set up to deliver prize money, was used for approximately a...

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: I appreciate that, but the bottom line is that approximately 70% of the fund given to Greyhound Racing Ireland from the tax created by the Government is used to run the organisation. In any scenario, that is lopsided. The only organisation to compare with is Horse Racing Ireland, which spends 35% on the organisation and 65% on the prize fund. I allowed for Covid. The previous figures go...