Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. I welcome the fact that the gambling control Bill will be published early next year, although I would like to see it earlier than that.

The reality is, by virtue of this legislation, the State will get more revenue from the betting industry and some of that should be used to deal with problems arising from harmful gambling. I hope the Minister of State can impress upon his officials the need to bring forward that Bill as quickly as possible, ideally before the end of 2014, as that would be a good day's work that all sides of the House would support.

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