Jack Horgan-Jones
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481 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Aug
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So I'm presuming there's a bit more spent on the National Lottery proper
online, which takes up to more than the 828 million.
But just the fact that you have a kind of secondary or synthetic market of this scale is quite significant.
They're also, they being the National Lottery, are also citing research that they've done, which suggests that a fair amount of people who play in the bookmakers or in online bookmakers, they actually believe that they're playing the National Lottery itself.
I have, yeah.
It's done by Indicon, the economic consultancy.
Yeah, so most of the kind of comparison jurisdictions would have looked at this and in the national lotteries telling anyway they've decided to go ahead and ban it.
And there are a few different ways of doing that.
You can do it by primary legislation, so introducing fresh laws through the Oireachtas or through regulation.
It is something that the political system writ large, if not the government, has looked at in the past.
Back in 2018, the now Justice Minister, Jim O'Callaghan, tried to introduce a private member's bill on this and more recently in the Seánad
now TD for Dun Laoghaire, Barry Ward, introduced legislation which passed all stages in the Shannon, but then ultimately fell when the Dáil was dissolved for the last general election.
So I think that in the round, the political system is, you know, well-minded towards at least considering this point.
The question, I suppose, is for the department which most directly oversees this, that being the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, whether they're going to kind of make it their business to go about legislating or regulating this space.
Yeah, so keeping an eye to the political news of the day and obviously that poll, the Red Sea poll in the Business Post gives us our most readily at hand headline.
And the numbers, just to quickly run through them, Sinn Féin at 25%, up 1%, Fianna Fáil 16%, No Change, Fine Gael down 2% to 16%, Independence.
Level on 12.
Sock Dems on eight.
Independent Ireland up two points, interestingly, to seven.
Ain't two on six.
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