Seanad debates

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed)

 

8:05 pm

Photo of Thomas ByrneThomas Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not suggesting this is something new or that the Government is changing the system radically, because it is not. This has always been the case and the Government from time to time decides it will spend the money on what one would imagine are good causes, such as a specific grant scheme for sports or buses for the elderly or the disabled through the Department of Health. If he wants, the Minister can tell me I am totally wrong, but I do not believe I am too far wrong.

One way to open the whole system up would be to provide that every decision to grant money for good causes be published in Iris Oifigiúil, which I understand is not currently the case. I am not trying to take the political glory away from Government Deputies, as it is part of the scene that they can make these announcements when in government, and that is fine.

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