Ms Angela Kerins:

Absolutely. That is correct. The proposed legislation makes the situation eight to ten times worse for us because while the total prize fund for charity lotteries is €20,000 in any one week, the Bill proposes that the top prize be €1,750. The proposal is to allow us to have €400,000 a month. That will not get us anywhere. We say scrap the cap on the prize fund for charity lotteries and let us earn money to run the services the State cannot afford to run and on which a great number of people depend. I forgot to mention organisations such as Gael Linn. The Government should either renegotiate a fund with us and come to some agreement or else it should scrap the company and the cap.