Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Yes. He was very kindly going to answer the question yesterday and I now have the answer. The Irish lottery has seen much debacle and I just wanted to let Senators know that although the regulator exists, he has not yet taken office. It is being dealt with by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

There is a second issue which is not such good news. Will the Leader invite the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, before the Seanad to tell me about the people's forum on Irish Water? We had a wonderful people's forum called the Constitutional Convention, so we have a template, and we need a people's forum very quickly before we start billing people for their water. I would like to see that initiated and put in place in order that people can monitor Irish Water in all the ways it needs to be overseen, especially with regard to the idea that it should never be privatised.