David Cullinane (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I also welcome the Minister to the House. It is important that he came here for this debate. We are all rightly concerned about the future of the national lottery. The motion that has been tabled, and I fully support its thrust and logic, gives us an important chance to debate the future of the national lottery.

It strikes me that there is nothing the Government will not privatise, there is nothing it will not sell off. We know some State assets are to be sold and that the Government is priming the privatisation of water services at some point through the establishment of Irish Water.