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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Generally, what is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Could we at least be given a list of the headings under promotion and the percentages of expenditure under each of the headings in the years from 2015 onwards?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Therefore, there is no way for me to prove to the general public that PLI actually spent €20 million in 2015 and €16 million in 2017. There is no way for me to comfort the general public with the fact that all the amounts we are talking about for each of the years were actually spent on promotion. We do not know if there was a leakage from the amount of money into general...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: We will take that up with him then. There are a number of times the lottery winnings have not been claimed. In 2020, €17 million was unclaimed. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: How many prizes would that represent?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Do the witnesses have a breakdown of those that they could share with the committee? Do they have a general response to the categories of prizes and the numbers unclaimed? Could that data be provided after the meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: According to the witnesses, the €19 million prize will have to be claimed and there will be a winner.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: The top prize is now €19 million. That will certainly be won. There must be a winner.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Is there not a greater possibility as unclaimed money goes into the lower tiers that there would be a greater number of unclaimed prizes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: The company is a winner-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: -----when it comes to unclaimed prizes. It is something it does not have to take from its balance sheet to promote the company.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Will the witness repeat that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Okay. Does Mr. Algeo have a breakdown of the unclaimed prizes? I am specifically talking about physical tickets versus the online tickets. Is there any breakdown of that within the company?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Okay. Those are my questions on unclaimed prizes. We can now move to the next stage of the committee, which involves the regulator. I thank the witnesses for attending today and I am sure we will have further conversations about this in future.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: We have moved on but go ahead, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: As we are finishing this part of the meeting, we will briefly suspend while members reconnect via their next link.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: I welcome Ms Carol Boate, Regulator of the National Lottery, and Mr. Derek Donohoe, deputy regulator and head of the audit and finance office of the Regulator of the National Lottery. The format of the meeting will be for Ms Boate to make some brief opening remarks, followed by questions from members. I remind members and witnesses of the note on privilege, whereby they have full privilege...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Boate for that. I call Deputy Durkan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: I remind Deputy Richmond that we are obliged to finish at 5 p.m. sharp.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: I will forgo speaking but I have to finish at 5 p.m. on the dot.