Mr. Frank Flannery:

Three charitable lotteries in Holland share close to 30% of the market and support causes throughout the country. The state controls the other 70% with a major national lottery. Its legislative framework allows this to happen and it is very satisfactory. The position in Sweden is also similar. The position in the United Kingdom is slightly more complex, but it has a far more liberal regime under which good cause lotteries work alongside a massive national lottery run by Camelot, a company about which Ireland will possibly become more knowledgeable in the time to come.

I know of no precedent for the extremely stentorian monopolistic regime being imposed in the lottery world in Ireland. We have found it extraordinarily difficult to have any rational discussion, let alone come to a conclusion, on it. I do not want to comment on further matters. Ireland is out of step with the fair and rational procedure found elsewhere in Europe and almost anywhere else.