Mr. Andrew Algeo:

The interest of, and comments by, Deputy Durkan are certainly welcome. We have been working with our suppliers and, indeed, we notified the regulator in early November of our intention to introduce a device such as this. As the national lottery has so many checks and balances, parallel systems and layers of governance over every draw, it is not a trivial thing to change games rules. The process of introducing a contingency to a very long draw, or this very long draw, has been in place for some months.