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National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I love apples.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The large number of existing categories of good causes provided for in section 41 include "national culture and heritage" and "youth, welfare and amenities". The advice I have received indicates that these categories cover many of the issues Deputies have raised. It is clear from the significant direct contact I have had with Deputies on this matter that the natural environment lobby is...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 36:In page 23, line 32, to delete "operator" and substitute "operator,".Amendments Nos. 36 to 38, inclusive, are technical in nature. Amendment No. 36 proposes to insert a comma, amendment No. 37 proposes to delete a comma and amendment No. 38 proposes to replace the plural form of a word with its singular form.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 37:In page 23, line 33, to delete "not," and substitute "not".

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 38:In page 25, line 21, to delete "games" and substitute "game".

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the opportunity to clarify this matter. The paragraph in question is taken from the 1986 Act. Its purpose is simply to allow the national lottery to have rules on the payment of prizes to people with an intellectual disability. It does not in any way disbar or prevent people with an intellectual disability from participating in the lotto. I am a great supporter of such...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I was concluding on Deputy Fleming's amendment. He asked me to include these details in the licence. I can confirm that the licence will address the issue, obviously in a manner consistent with EU law. I answered the rest of the questions.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy has been entirely consistent. She wants the existing scheme to continue. As I have explained previously, there must be a new licence in any event and that company might or might not win the licence. The new law will apply in the new regime, and section 30 is required.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 31:In page 19, line 11, to delete “Minister for Finance” and substitute “Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform”.The amendment substitutes the term "Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform" for the "Minister for Finance", which is the correct title after the division of the Department.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I understand the point the Deputy makes. My Department's financial and commercial advisers have advised that the licence might include information which the licence holder would not like to be made public. The feature of the next licence bid which resulted in the licence being granted might have a proprietorial approach to individual products that, for example, might be in operation in...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Sometimes I wonder why I bother addressing issues because the more one tries to be accommodating, the more the Deputy tries to nitpick. There are no exceptions to FOI in respect of this legislation. There are the general exceptions which the Freedom of Information Act itself applies with regard to commercially sensitive information. There is no change. The normal rules of FOI will apply....

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 28:In page 15, line 11, after “his” to insert “or her”.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I wish the Deputy would not keep repeating that we have not ring-fenced the money. We have. If the Deputy dismisses my word as having no value at all, that is well and good. I have told him and that is as much as I can reasonably do. In most reasonable cases when a Minister of the day gives such an undertaking in the Dáil, it is the normal practice that it would be accepted. Please...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The operator will be subject to corporation tax, unlike An Post which has been the operator to date. This new company will be subject to corporation tax. Section 29 of the Bill requires the licence holder to be formed as a company and, for the purposes of the Bill, a company means a company formed under the Companies Acts in this jurisdiction. The competition for this lottery is open to...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: What about amendment No. 17?

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: As the Deputy noted, section 24 of the Bill provides that the amount of the annual levy will be provided for in the licence. Obviously, this will not apply to the next licence, as those determinants will be made by me because the regulator has not yet been created and I want to get on with issuing the licence. Having again listened to Deputy Fleming and the points he made on Committee...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: For the same reason that Deputy McDonald is consistent, I must be consistent in opposing the amendment.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 26:In page 14, lines 25 and 26, to delete “except in accordance with any terms or conditions set out in the licence”.The intention is that it shall not be possible to amend the term of the licence, which sets out its duration. Therefore, it is proposed to remove the qualifying words, "except in accordance with any terms or conditions set out in the...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: He is a very busy chap.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I think the Deputy is being a bit mischievous in this amendment. There will be many organisations which should have a sunset clause applied to them. However, there is no sunset clause for the lottery itself. We are all agree that it should continue on in perpetuity and, therefore, the lottery regulator has to continue in perpetuity, in my judgment.