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Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Yes, in 2011.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Was that coming across from the Department for the scratch card sales?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: The total payout. Did that also include the bingo? I am sorry, it is just to clarify it.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Did the €3.9 million cover scratch card sales and the bingo card sales?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Mr. Purcell for the clarification. I want to understand how this scheme works in terms of how the newsagents come to make the sales of this amount. Rehab sells batches of tickets to newsagents and they pay a cost price for that. For example, where Rehab would sell a batch of 200 cards to a newsagent and those cards would sell for €200, what figure would the newsagent pay...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Two hundred tickets at €1.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I am sorry, I will stop Mr. McGuire for a moment. I will talk him through it, as I understand it, and he can correct me if I am wrong. I have seen the scratch cards, thank you. I do not need to see them again. The newsagent pays Rehab upfront for that batch of €200 tickets.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Separate from commission, does Rehab invoice the newsagent for that?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Separate from the commission that the newsagent takes, Rehab charge a fee for that batch because he is responsible for managing the €200 in sales of those scratch cards.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: What would be the typical amount for that gross invoice?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: As was explained to me, the newsagents are responsible for selling the €200 individual scratch cards. They take a commission on that. Did Mr. McGuire say that was 12%?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: As Mr. McGuire stated, there are two ends of the prizes here. This newsagent who, in the particular example given to me, is a 65 year old, gave €50 to Rehab, the newsagent takes a commission additional to that and then the remaining money is used by the newsagent to pay out the individuals who come to them who have one prizes at the low-end of the market. Anything under €20,...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: That is how, when we look at something like €4 million in sales, we see only €10,000 in profit, after we have taken into account the costs of running the scheme. It is not really €4 million in sales by Rehab, is it? Rehab's sales are sales directly to the newsagents because 70% of that money is being managed by the newsagents who are making the sales and paying out the...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Rehab's true sales figure is the money it gets back from the newsagents.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Why is Rehab recording it as €4 million in sales to the Department?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Rebate Scheme (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to cease the practice of colour coding of diesel and replace the current scheme for farmers with a rebate system, or some other system, in order to eliminate the illegal diesel smuggling industry which operates at a huge cost to the State in terms of revenue forgone and the waste of Government resources. [10030/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 4 February 2014, if he will consider including registration fees for third level institutions as a qualifying fee for tax relief under the current scheme. [10134/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 244. To ask the Minister for Health if he has any concerns regarding the possible impact of e-cigarettes on young people in terms of encouraging them to become smokers; if he is concerned that tobacco manufacturing and same companies are investing in and procuring e-cigarette companies; if it is his health policy that the e-cigarette industry be subsidised in any way here through grant aid,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 245. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the allocation of resources to healthcare by county and region and by type of spending for example human resources, infrastructure and so on [10032/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Incidence (27 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 246. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the burden of disease across counties and regions in Ireland by socio-economic strata [10033/14]