Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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I thank the Chair and thank Dr. Fulton.

I have not had an opportunity to read all of the survey but I have engaged with this issue previously. I am interested in hearing Dr. Fulton's views, specifically, on the language that we use. From what I have researched and what I have come across, we are being told that we should be talking about problem gambling, not necessarily gambling addiction. If it is interfering with one's capacity to be able to put food on the table, the threshold for addiction might be quite high but problem gambling is what we need to tackle. It is not only a full-blown addiction. I am just wondering, as I have read conflicting views on this. I try to use the term "problem gambling" rather than "addiction" because it says more about what is going on and what the impact is.