Ms Sharon Byrne:

I can give the initial response and then some of the witnesses representing online gambling organisations can refer to the online advertising. The code we introduced, which went live in January, includes the age gating requirement for online advertising. When operators put up an ad, they get to choose the target market, the demographics. They must click "over 25" on that. The Deputy's point highlights our issue and one of the reasons we are calling for a regulator.

I cannot force everyone to subscribe to this code. I did everything I could to try to persuade as many of those on the Irish licence register put up by the Revenue Commissioners to subscribe but I did not get them all.