David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I agree with the Deputy and thank him for his question. The general scheme of the Bill was published in 2013. We carried out further research, published last February, which showed the need to update the scheme and that work continues. The Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill was before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality recently and the committee has returned it without any comment following pre-legislative scrutiny. We are doing some minor work on that to deal with gambling control. I was hoping to publish it this term but unfortunately it has not been possible to publish the general Bill. I hope we will do that next term. Meanwhile, we are considering setting up a regulator in shadow format to kick start the work that needs to be done in this area.

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