Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

With all due respect, we have had external experts shape this legislation. If we get a substantial up-front payment of cash which I can turn into a national children’s hospital and have more to invest in other capital projects, it will get some of the 200,000 of the 250,000 construction workers who lost their jobs and are still on the live register back into work. Also, a national children’s hospital will save children’s lives. This can all be achieved while having a robust, well regulated lottery that will prove a solid and robust stream of income for good causes. Is that not a win-win for the State?