Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

By definition, it is somehow distasteful for someone to come up with such a big wad of money. Senator O'Donnell also said that to get less than ¤500 million would be a failure. I do not know how much the sale of the national lottery will realise because we have strict conditionalities. If we did not have the regulator, the licence regime, the protection of minors and the protection surrounding online gambling, there is no doubt we would get more money. The Government has made a balanced and innovative choice. I commend the amendment to the House.