Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I understand the logic of that, which is why I specifically did not put a date in the amendment. I know the lottery licence is to run for a long period. Normally people would have put five or ten years, but I left it wide open. If that is the Minister's stated position, however, he should revise the document he issued in November 2011 in which he referred to sunset clauses. He said that there would be exceptions to this when he deemed it fit, yet he did not insert any exceptions concerning that document. He will get the gist of what I am saying and I think he agrees with the principle of it. If there are exceptions, however, he should have said so on day one.

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