Mr. Martin Le Jeune:

We have some challenges in Ireland because when a customer registers we do not have automated verification. We have had to put processes in place amounting to manual verification. We have had to ask customers to first appoint a deposit. This is why this legislation is so important and this is an area with which the committee can help us. The technology exists in other markets and we want to get it in Ireland. We manually intervene with every single customer who registers to validate their age, but there is automated software that can do the verification checks. We would love to see that brought in. In the last few years we have had to step up and introduce much more robust processes for age verification at the point of registration in Ireland.