John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Given the public interest and the media attention around this in terms of the lottery, how it is operated, the old licence versus the current one, all that detail and following on from that the activities of the new company, the prizes, the unclaimed prizes and whatever else, and given that information is available without it being supported or challenged, surely, in the public interest, if the regulator was asked under the freedom of information legislation to give the figures, it would be in the public interest to know some of the figures, although perhaps not all of them, and to have some broad guidelines in regard to them.

It would be in the public interest to know some of the figures, although maybe not all of them, and to have some broad guidelines in regard to them.