Cian Murphy

It's been extremely effective where it has been banned.

It's also actually the UK have also banned it.

And we're calling on the government to follow suit and do that, to follow our EU neighbours.

This is a well understood problem.

There is no good reason to allow private operators to offer exactly the same product on the balls coming out of the National Lottery drum.

So there are a number of different types of bans that are in place.

In some countries, bookies absolutely have come up with their own alternative products.

In some countries, the ban is more extensive and they're not allowed to.

But I think the

the core of our problem is people betting on the national lottery draw.

That is the part of this where I think there's no good reason to offer it.

I've never heard somebody articulate to me a good reason why that should be allowed.

Absolutely.

I'm saying the structure of the national lottery is that almost 30% or around 30% of every cent goes straight into a fund for good causes.

That then goes to about four and a half thousand organisations around the country.

It's your local GAA club, your local care home.

People know that.

People care about it.

It's one of the reasons why people go and play the national lottery.

Well, most of the rest of it is for prizes.