Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State seems to be making the point that if our amendments are allowed, it would mean an agent to whom the licence is transferred would not have to go though the vigorous process that is set out before the District Court. The manner in which we have drafted subsection (8) clearly implies there would be permission to transfer the licence from the applicant to the agent and the agent would then conduct the lottery on its behalf. Is the Minister of State saying that, as matters currently stand, even if a person is not the holder of the licence, he or she can still promote the lottery if that person is an agent?