Ms Carol Boate:

The Deputy is right. The advent of the smartphone means you do not even have to get out of bed to access the Internet. There is a huge difference between the online national lottery channel and online gambling. The national lottery is a State-owned entity with bespoke legislation and a regulator singularly focused on it. Beyond that, it is only allowed to offered a very limited range of products. It is not allowed to offer slot machine games, poker or sports betting.