Lottery chief faces grilling over technology glitches

The new operators of the National Lottery are to appear before the Oireachtas finance committee next Wednesday to face a grilling from retailers and politicians about serious technical glitches in the system since the takeover.

The new lottery regulator, Liam Sloyan, is also to attend, along with Tara Buckley, the chief executive of RGDATA, which represents 4,000 independent family-owned shops.

“We have indicated to the committee that we will attend,” a spokesperson for Premier Lotteries Ireland said yesterday, adding its CEO, Dermot Griffin, would be the lottery representative.