Arthur Spring (Kerry North-West Limerick, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the delegates. If anybody at home is watching this meeting, he or she will, unfortunately, have a very negative perception of the lottery. However, I will give the delegates an opportunity to explain some of the things that are going right with the lottery.

My first question is to Mr. Griffin. People argue that the transition from An Post to PLI has not been seamless. Will he elaborate a little on the strategic implementation of the takeover? For me and many others, the national lottery worked very well for all concerned - for members in this room, the customer, the retailer, An Post and the organisations that benefited from it, which was the reason it was started. Why was it so fundamentally changed technically when PLI took it over from An Post?