Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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The regulator has never sought new powers. All of what Ms Boate has just said is just her reading out her terms of reference. I have missed some of this meeting but to my mind and in any of the interactions I have seen, Ms Boate has not set out in any meaningful way how the regulator actually protects consumers and takes proactive measures to ensure the reputation of the lottery system whereby people who purchase tickets are protected. Any measures that have happened in terms of public responses have come from elsewhere. The Comptroller and Auditor General has been mentioned. It was Members of this House and members of the public who raised the issues relating to the change of rules and the additional balls being added. There was the huge battle about the roll-over. It was this House that carried out the scrutiny, as far as I can see. Section 38 of the National Lottery Act, empowers the regulator to appoint someone to conduct a general overview of the system. The regulator did not do that.