Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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I wish to ask a final question relating to probability. My apologies for returning to this issue. Mr. Algeo stated that the probability of having 54 rollovers is the same as that of a die being cast 37 times without a six being rolled, which is 0.01%. We have agreed on that. For the same probability to apply to the run of rollovers means that fewer than 1 million unique tickets would need to be sold per game. Obviously, that is lower as a percentage of chances of winning. Does Mr. Algeo agree that is a lower percentage of chance of winning the national lottery compared with the British national lottery?