Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion

Dr. Crystal Fulton:

I could not speak to that. I do not know exactly what information is at the disposal of the companies and I am not able to comment on what they are using. I will say that participants talked about self-exclusion and the problems with it. A person might self-exclude from one company and then place a sneaky bet somewhere else.

I may be excluded with one company but not with another. There was this kind of blanket exclusion. It becomes a tricky space as to how one achieves this across venues for an individual who has a very serious problem, the handling of which needs in-depth exploration.