James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To be technically correct, we handed that money back to the Exchequer because the national lottery does not directly give us money; it gives money to the Exchequer which in turn hands it to us. We hand it back to the Exchequer when we do not take it. We got a reasonably good deal, in so far as for that €900,000 plus we got €26 million extra for the agency.