Results 1-18 of 18 for lottery speaker:Ciarán Lynch

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Regulator Establishment (17 Oct 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will make an appointment to the office of the regulator of the national lottery; the selection criteria and terms and conditions to be applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43934/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Regulator Establishment (11 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 332. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Regulator of the National Lottery will be put in place; if he will give details of the remit of the regulator; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26775/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Message to Dáil (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform has completed its consideration of the National Lottery Bill 2012 and has made amendments thereto.

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: Standard lotteries are justice issues.

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 have been doing some work to prepare for the betting legislation which is coming before the committee. It is not an homogenous industry. There are lotteries like bingo or the national lottery which have fixed odds.

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: 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: 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: Can the Minister clarify if there is a regulator for the gaming, gambling and lottery industry currently?

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: ...of the betting legislation that will be coming before the committee and the recognition that there is an "undertake" of revenue on foot of regulation in the broader gambling industry, will the lottery regulator be subsumed or evolved into a general gambling-gaming-lottery regulatory structure in 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: ...Minister to clarify that. This meeting is being broadcast live. There may be people watching these proceedings at home. The national children's hospital is a significant part of the national lottery legislation.

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 tendering of the national lottery will arrive with a capital injection to the Exchequer.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Committee (27 Mar 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: ...meeting is in public session. I welcome the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, and his officials to the meeting, the purpose of which is to consider the National Lottery Bill 2012. The Bill was referred to the committee by the Dáil on 6 February 2013. Is it agreed to conclude consideration of the Bill today? Agreed.

Written Answers — National Lottery: National Lottery (7 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of national lottery income by quarter for each year since 2007; the amount disbursed under each heading in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45864/10]

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (2 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Finance the headings under which the national lottery funds are distributed at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40205/10]

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (2 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 571: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of national lottery funding allocated to community development projects in each year since 2005; the percentage of the total funding that was represented by a national lottery funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40206/10]

Written Answers — National Lottery: National Lottery (5 Feb 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Finance the element of funds which it was intended would be used for the promotion of sporting activities when allocating funds collected by the National Lottery; the purposes to which such funds will be put in view of the announcement from the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism of the suspension of sports grants; and if he will make a statement on the...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (23 Apr 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. Head injury and related trauma is a lottery in Ireland, which I can state from my own personal experience of its effects. Three years ago, my wife was taken to the accident and emergency department of Cork University Hospital because she suffered a very serious fall. While she lay unconscious and under examination, the doctor explained that...