Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am asking Ms Boate this question now as regulator. I am sure that there would be numerous and regular communication between her office and the operator. Surely, at that point, given the level of public discussion around this, the whole credibility of the national lottery was a stake here. As regulator, did it occur to anybody in her office of the nine or ten staff members which I read of in the briefing notes, to propose picking up the phone to the operator to say that while this can continue indefinitely, it would be a good idea to try to have a cut-off point? In other words, why did the regulator’s office not suggest this?

This stands out for me and I do not play the national lottery. It was raised in this House at the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, where Dáil Deputies took a particular interest in the matter-----