Ms Carol Boate:

Many national lotteries and state lotteries have a subscription service whereby a person can sign up to have his or her numbers entered automatically for every draw. For some people, the idea that their numbers would come up and they forgot to put them in would be too much. They like the idea of being able to play every week or every draw. The financial mechanism or instrument used is different in every case but the idea is that one pays money every draw or every month to facilitate that. The company decided to propose something like that facility for Ireland. It was refused on the basis that I believed it raised too many risks, was not sufficiently protective of the interests of players and presented too many risks to the reputation and sustainability of the national lottery.