Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Committee on Public Petitions
Decisions on Public Petitions Received
Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I concur. I propose that action.
As a committee, we might talk about it in private session at the next meeting. There is a piece of work that we can do. As both of my colleagues have stated eloquently, there is an issue that is not going away that we need to grasp. Given that we have a petition before the committee, we can use that as a platform to discuss the issue ahead of the legislation being published and ahead of pre-scrutiny. It can be part of our scrutiny of impending legislation. It is important that we allow people to come in here and voice views and concerns on the issue of gaming and gambling. As a first step, we might do that with the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton.
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