Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As Deputy Catherine Murphy said, with all that advertising the national lottery does not have any safeguards concerning gambling. It does not even have a mystery shopper, particularly regarding scratch cards but also regarding gambling. There may well be a particular issue with scratch cards. I am not referring to addiction, as such, but people certainly spend more money than they can afford on scratch cards. The national lottery spends 98% of the funding on advertising and does little or nothing in the way of helping with gambling addiction or anything like that.