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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)

Peadar Tóibín: Mr. Algeo stated that these things are sensitive because of competition. With whom is PLI in competition in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: That is a very broad understanding of competition by anybody’s measure. Surely a jackpot worth €19 million is a licensed business because it is singular in its operation and does not have direct competition.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that but, to put it in marketing terms, if you do not analyse your competitors with a sharp focus, you will not be able to compete fully or operate. I do not accept that expenditure on a national lottery jackpot is in competition with pretty much all other discretionary expenditure, and I am sure that most others do not either. Is it not in the lottery’s interest to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Does Mr. Algeo not admit that, in the past four months, there has been an increase in sales for the jackpot prize of the national lottery and that, as a result, it is fair to understand that an increasingly high jackpot increases turnover and profitability? There is probably a flipside, however, in that if it gets into the public psyche that a draw or jackpot cannot be won, it hurts sales,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: In hindsight, maybe the addition of the extra balls has caused difficulty. PLI is a consortium. It includes the An Post pension fund and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Accounts have shown that PLI has racked up about €120 million in interest on loans from the consortium since 2014. The payment of the interest is having an effect on reported profitability. It is hard...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The interest repayments are the reason profitability has been reduced.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The licence is granted by the State. We have to return to the original model of regular jackpots. It is necessary to have time limits within which jackpots must be won.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Many of us on this side of the Chamber expected the Green Party to play, to some extent, a sort of a watchdog role within the Government. We believed that, given its election manifesto and its long-held objectives in regard to housing and many other issues, the party would ensure it put pressure on both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to make them do right by key issues such as housing. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The Sunday Independentreported that 300,000 jobs are being supported and approximately 25,000 businesses are under pressure as a result of Covid and the restrictions that have been implemented. IBEC has stated that in hospitality, there will be 40,000 fewer jobs in 2022 than in 2019, an incredible figure. The majority of these jobs will be lost by women and the second greatest proportion of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the idea of this being centralised?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: This day last week, the Taoiseach stated that only 93,000 of 180,000 people showed up for their booster appointments. He suggested there was not the same urgency for boosters as there was for the first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. Does he stand by that statement? Is it still correct? Was it even correct last week? My office and those of other Deputies are getting calls from people who...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Was anything I said incorrect?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Was anything I said incorrect?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The women have said it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress of the Strategy Statement 2021-2023 of his Department. [61415/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I also want to raise the case of the Women of Honour. They have been battling for justice after their experience in the armed forces for a number of years and not just in recent times. Their particular case has become centre stage due to the work of the Katie Hannon documentary a number of months ago. Their allegations are with regard to sexual abuse, bullying and discrimination and that...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number or percentage of households and premises which have yet to receive high speed fibre power broadband; and if he will provide an update on the roll-out of broadband across the country. [61414/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the State is on track to meet the carbon reduction targets set out in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61413/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commissions of Investigation (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of commissions of investigation currently ongoing under the remit of his Department; the duration of each commission of investigation; the deadline for each commission of investigation; and the actual and projected cost of each commission of investigation. [54098/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Weather Events (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the person or body that made the decision to close schools in County Meath due to a Met Éireann orange warning; the number of orange warnings that have been issued by Met Éireann in each of the past five years; and the number of times in the past the Minister for Education has closed schools on orange warnings. [61243/21]