National Lottery (Ireland) to receive lottery funding. On 3 October 2013, Minister Howlin announced that the government had agreed to sell the National Lottery licence for €405 million to Premier Lotteries Ireland, a consortium comprising An Post, An Post pension funds, and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (owner of the Camelot Group, operators of the UK National Lottery). Dermot Griffin, head of the An Post National Lottery Company since 2006, was appointed chief executive of Premier Lotteries Ireland. Other existing senior management were also retained. Executives from the Camelot Group, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and An Post were appointed to the board
Pilot licensing in the United Kingdom so—and are independent of any aircraft "type", or "class", "ratings" included in the holder's licence and other ratings required for flying under specified conditions. Currently British glider pilots do not require a CAA-granted licence. Regulation of gliding is through the British Gliding Association and its affiliated clubs. However, from April 2018 they will require a CAA issued LAPL(S) (or the international Sailplane Pilots Licence - SPL) to fly EASA registered sailplanes. The UK NPPL has close links with the gliding community and a gliding licence can be converted. The "UK National Private Pilot Licence" is a restricted form of the