Ms Yvonne McNamara:

Yes. We see this in head 18. Resort casinos which by their nature are large are absolutely excluded under the legislation by a very restrictive mechanism in respect of the scale of casinos. Under head 18, any single casino can only have 15 gaming tables and 25 gaming machines. There is no way, therefore, if the legislation goes through in this form, resort casinos could be licensed, no matter what the beneficial outcomes would be. This seems to be in direct contravention of the 2010 report of the Department of Justice and Equality that recommended that resort casinos be one of the two types of casino licensed under the legislation in recognition of the benefits that go with them.