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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: How were those checks done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: So the regulator starts verifying people if and when they win, is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: So of the 2,700 checks that were applied to people who had won, every one of them was compliant, is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: So no single person was non-compliant, except that there was a reference to the person who was abroad.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: There were 2,700 checks in relation to age.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Presumably the 2,700 checks were not just dealing with age, but were also dealing with other criteria.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: How many of the 2,700 checks that have been done in relation to people winning have provided a result that meant they were giving false data to start with?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Okay but is it in the region of 5%, 10%, 20% or 50%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Okay. Is it fair to say that if the prizes are a set percentage, or a minimum percentage that they cannot fall below, and the good causes are a minimum percentage of what is left, the only way the operator can make more money is by increasing the volume?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Other than, perhaps, operational efficiencies in what they are doing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: To pay back the big up-front fee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Sorry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: So the more money the operator makes, the more money the good causes make. Is that the point Mr. Sloyan is trying to make?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: I know it is correct, but is that the point Mr. Sloyan is trying to make?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: I am suggesting that the only way the operator can make more money - and, ideally, for his purposes or their purposes, recover their costs more quickly or generate a better return for themselves in terms of the significant upfront fee that was paid - is to increase volume. They cannot really do it any other way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Okay. They have no scope in the margin because, as we heard from RGDATA, that 6% margin would apply to all other new agents, such as post offices, barbers, bookshops and cafés. I will not say café-bars because lottery tickets cannot be sold on licensed premises. However, that does not stop people sitting in a pub from buying online and potentially losing €75 a day if they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Those limits of €75, €300 and €900 were in the Act.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: They are in the licence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: So Mr. Sloyan cannot recommend to us - I am not saying he would - that those figures are excessive. The sum of €300 a week would be significantly larger than a lot of weekly social welfare payments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Gerry Horkan: And Mr. Sloyan does not have any discretion over them?