Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 185: To ask the Minister for Finance the surplus available to the Exchequer after payment of prize money and administration costs from the National Lottery for each of the past five years; and the breakdown for the distribution of such surplus for each of those years. [20403/10]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The surplus of the National Lottery (viz. its turnover net of prizes and all costs) is transferred to the Exchequer on a regular basis. The following table shows the surplus transferred in each of the past five years:

The transferred surplus is applied each year to part-fund the Exchequer allocations to a specified range of expenditure subheads across various Votes. Details of the amount transferred and the allocations to the relevant subheads are set out each year in Appendix 1 of the annual Revised Book of Estimates. In recent years, the total amount provided from the Exchequer to these subheads is significantly larger than the amount available from the National Lottery surplus.