Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 July 2014

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance

Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage

6:55 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is interesting that the debate in the Houses of the Oireachtas in 1932 was that odds can be advertised but not for a local football match. That probably goes back to a time when there was plenty of fighting at matches, so it may have been an incitement.

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