James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Amendments Nos. 97, 105 to 109, inclusive, 123 to 127, inclusive, 129, 130, 134, 138 and 139 are all either technical amendments to address minor drafting issues, numbering or linguistic changes for clarity and are not substantive in nature.

Amendments Nos. 98 to 104, inclusive, 110 to 114, inclusive, 128, 131 to 133, inclusive, 135 to 137, inclusive, and 173 are related to the application process for gambling licences and the ability of the authority to determine applications. This group of amendments provides for the updated information a person must provide to the authority as part of an application in respect of a premises, particularly where an applicant wishes to allow children or ATMs on a premises or, in the case of charitable or philanthropic licensees, where they wish to sell tickets away from the premises or allow children to do so. These include the reasons for such a request. The amendments provide the authority with the discretion to grant such a request, having regard to certain factors. Amendments in this group also remove the requirement for applicants for a charitable or philanthropic licence to have to supply detailed IT information when applying for a licence, widen the information required from applicants as regards personal insolvency matters to include any other arrangements or compositions with creditors and provide for additional disclosures by licensees under the Consumer Credit Act 1995 when applying for a licence from the authority.

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