Ireland National Lottery operating profit increases by 64 in 2020

Sales of lottery tickets in Ireland increased by 4% to €918

Sales of drawing tickets in Irish Republic increased by 4% to €918.9m ($1.09bn) inwards 2020, with more people playing online.

Operating profit for Premier Lotteries Republic of Ireland (PLI), which has bleed the National Lottery since 2014, reached €14.6m, a 64% growth from 2019.

The note value of prizes has grown by 6% year-on-year, while €253.6m was distributed to ripe causes.

Around 1.3 meg people inward Emerald Isle swordplay National Lottery games regularly, with online sales growing from 9% of the add together inwards 2019 to 15% of the amount inwards 2020.

“It was another ripe yr for National Lottery players with a book €529m inwards prizes generated from €919m of just the ticket sales, all grounds of the becalm growing inward the popularity of the National Lottery,” said PLI Chief Executive St. Andrew Algeo.

The aggroup said that it has introduced a number of participant safeguards inward recent months, such as scar scorecard purchase limits, the phasing come out of credit card online payments, and the incorporation of advanced participant monitoring and intercession tools.

PLI, which holds a 20-year licence to control the National Lottery, added that €16m of expired, unclaimed appreciate money was transferred to the Exchequer shoemaker's last year, which according to the Government will follow allocated to the wellness divine service to financial backing the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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