Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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Our experience of Internet providers doing the right thing has not been very good in many places. I wonder how it would work in this situation or scenario. Apart from that, that is really what needs to happen. Mr. Grant is saying the Internet providers need to play a role in that.

In addition to the difficulty we have online, we also have a similar problem with people who get into huge debt. I recently spoke to someone who works with one of the Money Advice & Budgeting Service, MABS, organisations who told me that when MABS asks people in debt to bring in their bank statements and stuff, it finds there are lists of various gambling houses. People are, in a sense, chasing their debt and trying to pull it back and the fast way out is to gamble their way out of it, which, of course, all ends in tears. In that regard, what more needs to be done to ensure people cannot get into that kind of debt, particularly in respect of credit card providers and other agencies? What element of co-operation is needed from them in regard to all that?