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- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: A vote has been called in the Dáil. We will have a brief suspension but I want to get to the end of this section.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: We will suspend the meeting while the vote takes place in the Chamber. Following that we will recommence immediately. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: We will recommence on section 30, which is opposed by Deputy McDonald.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Amendment No. 23 involves a potential charge on the Exchequer and must be ruled out of order in accordance with Standing Orders. However, if the Deputy wants to address the general substance of what she was proposing-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: -----she can do so when we are discussing the section.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Yes.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: The trend in other jurisdictions where lotteries are in place is that due to the evolution of software technology the terminal points can also have additional services other than the lottery. For example, one could perhaps pay one’s ESB bill or other bill. Is there an implication with regard to the section that such facilities could be developed in the future?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: What about mobile top-ups or other such services?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: The Minister’s view is that we should ring-fence the activity.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 18 and 19 are related and will be discussed together.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: I appreciate Deputy Fleming’s position. The national lottery is not a single product agency. It has multiple products, if I can use that term, including scratch cards. There are variations on how the system works. Other companies compete with it, such as Rehab Lotteries, which operates a scratch card so there might be a sensitivity in terms of different operators who are in...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: I note the section is opposed by Deputy MacDonald.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: From tracking the discussion on this, I understand the Bill prior to this amendment did not provide a timeline or process for game approvals in the system. Is that correct?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: I understand the Bill prior to this amendment did not include a timeline or a process for games approvals in the system.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: There were regulatory difficulties with that. If a new game was put into the lottery process such as a different type of scratch card or something like that it would have to be in sequence with the regulator. This amendment corrects that. Is the Minister indicating it does not correct that?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: That is being dealt with as well separately.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 13 and 14 are being taken together. If amendment No. 13 is agreed to, amendment No. 14 cannot be moved.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 11, 40 and 41 are related and will be discussed together.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: It may happen above in the Chamber during Minister's questions, but I try to operate a different culture here when we are in committee.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: I might need a cooling-off period here for five or ten minutes, besides the issue we are debating.