Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 November 2022
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund
9:30 am
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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"May" is a permission. "Shall" is a prohibition or a mandate. They are totally different things. "You may not" means you are not permitted to. If I say Ms Boate may not smoke in here, it does not mean she is allowed not to smoke but that she may not smoke, she must not smoke.