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THE COST OF playing additional Lotto draws is set to increase from the start of next month.
In a statement today, the National Lottery confirmed that Lotto Plus games will increase in price from 50c to €1.
This is the second price increase to hit Lotto players since a takeover by Premiere Lotteries Ireland (PLI) in 2015, when the price of a standard two-line play increased by €1.
The odds of winning the jackpot were also increased to almost 11 million to one when two extra numbers were added to the selection grid.
The Lotto Plus draw allows players to enter two further draws in addition to the main two-line play. The prizes are currently €500,000 for Lotto Plus 1 and €250,000 for Lotto Plus 2.
Bigger prize
Under the new changes, set to come into effect from September 1, the price for Lotto Plus 1 will double to €1,000,000. It’s the first change to the Lotto Plus game in 16 years.
A National Lottery spokesperson said the changes are “based on player feedback and intended to improve the attractiveness of the game and maximise returns to good causes”.
“There is no change in the price of a panel for the main Lotto Draw,” the statement added.
PLI paid €405 million for a 20-year license to operate the National Lottery in 2014. CEO Dermot Griffin said it would bring in changes that would deliver ‘a more exciting game’ that would ‘generate more funds for good causes’.
Last year €226 million was paid out to good causes.
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Save the world guys!, pay 2 euro for a litre of diesel\petrol in Ireland (a tiny country) while the US and other major powers\populations pay quarter of that…we’ve probably had about 20 years of these Carbon taxes and it doesn’t seems to be stopping anything :-(
@Spartacus Ireland: very true & Britain only accounts for 1% of global emissions but still inspires larger countries with green policies. I agree we play a small role but what’s the alternative in your view.
@Mjhint: We couldn’t incentivise?…it’s the same approach to obesity make the bad food more expensive and the good food even more expensive!?…I went to look into buying a basic electric car (38k?), I looked into a little wind generated in the house (thousands!!)…and if I’m taxed more and more I’ll never be able to afford these green technologies…make the good stuff cheaper is my suggestion, or is that just too difficult!?
@Ireland Abú: Yes, if this is an emergency we really need to incentivise very quickly…and if that means practically giving electric cars away or making the new technologies much more affordable then I’m in for sure!!…but I just don’t see the real and immediate benefit to these taxes (they’ve been with us a long time and still the globe gets hotter)…it seemed that CFC removal in aerosol in the eighties made the Ozone problem better (…or did it???)…all that’s happening right now is I’m just going broke and still trying to get to work and still trying to heat my home :-(
@Ireland Abú: get a job.
Barry Cowan looks towards the SF benches as he delivers the eunuchs-in-a-brothel line. I suppose if he is suggesting SF are the eunuchs then it follows that the Dail is a brothel.
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