(Limerick East): I thank the Minister for a very full reply. I know many Deputies want to ask supplementaries. I want to explore one area and as the person who won this particular lottery and came out as number six I get first shot. Will the Minister inform us whether it is the Government's intention to use money from the lottery to substitute from revenue or borrowing in 1988 to fund projects which the Government would undertake anyway or is it the Government's intention to have a new set of projects in the appropriate areas which would be funded exclusively from the lottery?

I thank the Deputy for his kind words. The details are not decided fully in relation to how the money will be spent on specific projects. It is an unusual kind of exercise, particularly for this Government because we have spent a number of months curtailing expenditure and abolishing schemes, yet now we have to set our minds towards the allocation of these substantial resources arising from the success of the lottery. We will be very careful about how this money will be allocated. Without being specific but, at the same time, not trying to avoid the Deputy's question, it would not be our intention to substitute this expenditure for other expenditure in the 1988 programme. Most of it will be for new projects which would not otherwise have gone ahead.

(Limerick East): Can I take it that next week and again next year when the £36 million is being distributed there will be an added increment of activity in culture, art, sport, youth and health rather than the substitution of lottery money for revenue to fund existing projects?

What the Deputy said in the first part of his question is correct.