355. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Finance the number of gaming machines currently licensed, by county, in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35258/24]

356. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Finance the number of gaming machines licensed, by county, in each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35259/24]

357. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue generated through gaming machines licence fees split, by county, in gaming premises and casinos located in Ireland since 2020, per year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35260/24]

Minister for Finance: I propose to take Questions Nos. 355 to 357, inclusive, together.

I am advised by Revenue that gaming machine licences may be applied for to cover a full year period, or a three month period. The number of gaming machine annual licences and three month licences issued to date in 2024, for each county, are set out in table 1.

Table 1

The number of annual gaming machine licences issued, by county, in each of the years 2020 to 2024 (to date) is outlined in tabular form in table 2.

Table 2

* Where the number of cases is less than 10 the exact number is not provided, instead these are presented as ‘<10’. This is in line with Revenue’s Statistical Disclosure Controls, which are in place in order to protect and maintain taxpayer confidentiality. In some cases where the number of cases is not less than 10 it may still be required to suppress the exact number; these are displayed as ‘N/A’. This is in order to prevent that data presented as ‘<10’ being imputed from the total number of cases, which is also provided. The data point chosen to be suppressed is the lowest value data point that is not itself less than 10.

The number of three month gaming machine licences issued, by county, in each of the years 2020 to 2024 is outlined in tabular form in table 3.

Table 3

* Where the number of cases is less than 10 the exact number is not provided, instead these are presented as ‘<10’. This is in line with Revenue’s Statistical Disclosure Controls, which are in place in order to protect and maintain taxpayer confidentiality. In some cases where the number of cases is not less than 10 it may still be required to suppress the exact number; these are displayed as ‘N/A’. This is in order to prevent that data presented as ‘<10’ being imputed from the total number of cases, which is also provided. The data point chosen to be suppressed is the lowest value data point that is not itself less than 10.

The amount of revenue generated through gaming machine licence fees split, by county, since 2020, per year, is set out in tabular form in table 4.

Table 4