Results 1-20 of 27 for lottery speaker:Joan Burton

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...if it was an entirely voluntary local thing, those costs may be far lower because people are giving their services voluntarily. The Minister of State is not trying to ban the semi-commercial lotteries which people outside the gate were talking about yesterday but, if he wants his 25% for charity, he should stick with that. If needs be, why not commission a study of profit margins and...

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...like to put a second point to the Minister of State. It relates to something I do not understand about the Government. I do not know whether the Minister of State has met representatives of the national lottery.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: Okay. They have met many Deputies because they are facing withering competition from offshore companies that allow people to bet on lotteries. Those companies are competing with our national lottery, which is a major contributor to good causes. If one goes online, one can see how the stakes from the national lottery are distributed to good causes around the country under the good causes...

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: I ask the Minister of State to give more consideration to what he is talking about. He has managed to confuse everybody. He is going to say party lotteries do not fall into this. That is probably what his officials are saying to him at the moment. Why not? Are we not entitled to have information about that kind of lottery? For some reason, the people in the bingo hall seem to deserve a...

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...to bingo. That is because it is not seen as gambling. Rather, it is seen as playing a game in the same way that people play other games. It is not gambling. The Bill's Title is the Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019. This is not James Bond in a dicky bow and black suit out for a night in one of the novels or films. We are talking about people's mothers and grannies-----

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...to come the next week when perhaps their luck will change and they will win a line, a card or one of the super prizes. Why decide to insert this absolutely harmless pastime into the gaming and lotteries Bill? It was an unwise decision. The Minister of State's motives may have been well meant but he seriously needs to explain to people, and particularly to women, up and down the country...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Youthreach Programme Review (25 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: ...be specifically addressed. For instance, a child may be on the autism spectrum and find life difficult in a general school for a variety of reasons. Youthreach participation can be a postcode lottery. It depends on where one lives. What arrangements will the Minister make to deal with this? The Youthreach model could be used in existing primary and secondary schools in rural and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Lottery Regulator (5 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 44. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received an opinion from the regulator of the national lottery regarding the threat to the national lottery and the good cause fund posed by online, offshore bet-on-lottery operators; if he will publish this opinion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10639/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Lottery Regulator (5 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: It appears that the national lottery, which contributes over €220 million to good causes each year, is now subject to a very serious threat from the operation of unregulated offshore betting-on-lottery operators. Has the Minister received the report that was previously indicated? If so, will he make it available?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Lottery Regulator (5 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister expect to receive an opinion from the regulator of the national lottery regarding the threat posed by online offshore operators that allow people to bet on the outcome of lottery draws? I think he has conceded that it is a threat. It would have a negative impact on the good causes fund. As he indicated in his answer, the Minister appreciates the €225 million that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Lottery Regulator (5 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: ...regulator and gambling regulation legislation over a very long time. Despite all the talk, nothing has happened. The Minister may wish to see it introduced. However, the threat to the national lottery exists in the here and now. We will welcome whatever the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, is going to do in due course. However, this particular problem needs to be addressed in the...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: ...human curiosity whereby people mean no wrong but nonetheless feel they may be entitled to a peek. Members may remember the case of someone from Limerick winning an enormous prize in one of the lotteries and a departmental staff member who was found to have accessed information on the prizewinner. Whether he or she did, I do not know, because it was a very long time ago, but there is an...

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: ...for Social Protection, I saw through the House a Bill to give people the right to trace, almost to its final Stages. As we heard, many of the individuals in question are getting older. Tracing is a lottery. Some people are successful because the organisation that arranged their adoption is still in operation and has a structure in place for dealing with tracing, while others are unable...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (23 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 198 and 199 together. For the period 2009 to date in 2015 my Department has received no funding from the National Lottery fund.

Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: ...Orders 21(1)(a) and 28(3) shall be Friday, 23 January 2015 and the business to be taken on that date shall be the items already selected to be taken on Friday, 5 December 2014, and there shall be no further lottery for Friday, 23 January 2015.

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (27 Mar 2012)

Joan Burton: This Department does not receive any funding from the National Lottery.

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (21 Jul 2011)

Joan Burton: This Department did not receive any funding from the National Lottery in 2009 and 2010.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Joan Burton: ...will recall the case of Mr. Fingleton who ended his working life with a pension fund of €20 million, most of which had been tax-breaked by the State. Even those who dream of winning the national lottery would not dream of the figures in some of these pension funds. This is a complex reform which involves extending the notion of people's working lives and right to work, which many people...

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Joan Burton: ...down; people were being killed when houses collapsed on them. However, it is not good enough to say one wants to redevelop if the system then turns that redevelopment process into a type of casino lottery win for super-wealthy people. The social dividend must go not just to the developers but to the ordinary taxpayers. In future, if we decide to exempt certain people or actions from...

Written Answers — Lottery Funding: Lottery Funding (11 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 219: To ask the Minister for Finance the surplus received from the national lottery to the Exchequer each year for the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39474/08]