Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Members of the public have raised the issue of whether the technology surrounding the national lottery could be interfered with externally or hacked. If that is so, what prevention measures have been taken? For example, if the HSE was hacked, it is quite possible that somebody somewhere would attempt to do so with the national lottery, which has a rolling prize of €20 million or thereabouts and several other prizes. Will Ms Boate tell me, if she can, the methodology used to prevent that? Some methods may be electronic and some may be technical.