Ivana Bacik
Question:304. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the report on the independent review of the allocation and utilisation of National Lottery funding. [51120/22]
View answerTuesday, 18 October 2022
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The National Lottery is a significant asset which plays an important role in generating funds for Good Causes throughout Ireland and across a range of areas including sport and recreation, culture and heritage, community health, the arts, and youth affairs.
The National Lottery Fund transferred €289m to the Exchequer in 2021 which represents a significant 14% increase on 2020 and is a record, unprecedented figure under the license commenced by Premier Lotteries Ireland (PLI) in 2014.
Circa €6 billion has been raised for Good Causes since the National Lottery commenced operations in 1987.
As agreed by Government, I commissioned an independent, external review to explore potential policy options to help provide a more transparent and effective model for distributing National Lottery. One of the key inputs to the report is a review and report on examples of systems used in other jurisdictions for the allocation of Lottery funding.
I believe that work on finalising and submitting the report is very close to completion and I understand that the report will be available for my consideration in the near future. I will bring the Report to Government and publish it thereafter.