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Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: I will discuss amendments Nos. 200 and 201 together. These clarify that it shall be an offence to offer a targeted inducement to a person or a specific group of people and that offers or promotions to the public must comply with any regulations made under this section. Such regulations may impose conditions, including restrictions on the manner in which an offer is conveyed to the public...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: Amendment No. 211 is a restatement and tweaking of the section dealing with privileged legal material. Amendment No. 212 inserted a new section into the Bill to provide that the authorised officer of the authority may request copies of records and information from certain officials under other Acts where the information or records are needed in the performance of their duties and a...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: Regarding premises, we are satisfied that it will allow for selling tickets around the pitch. In fairness, Deputy Doherty captured that problem in the original Bill. Deputy McGrath has called me obstinate and said that I have not accepted anything raised by other Deputies, but when Deputy Doherty spotted that we made the necessary change to address it. Regarding multiple licences, the...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: The Interpretation Acts provide that reference to the singular also covers the plural. Therefore, "payment" and "payments" mean the same thing within the legislation. It is the same with "licence" and "licences". The bingo sector has raised that consistently over recent months and we have sought to clarify it for that sector as well. The singular meaning plural and plural meaning singular...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: Amendments Nos. 174, 178 and 179 are technical amendments. Amendments Nos. 175 and 176 cover specified changes in licensees' information that must be notified to the authority. Amendment No. 177 provides that a commercial licence is granted subject to compliance with certain conditions. Amendment No. 178 provides that the requirement to hold segregated customer accounts applies to both...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: Amendments Nos. 183 to 188, inclusive, are drafting changes recommended by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel to make this section clearer and linguistically accurate. Similarly amendments Nos. 191, 192 and 194 are technical in nature.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: Amendment No. 196 is technical in nature and deletes a section in the Bill as passed by the Dáil to facilitate its reinsertion in section 228 as inserted on Committee Stage in the Seanad alongside other consequential amendments to other legislation.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: Amendments Nos. 154 to 156, inclusive, clarify the application process and criteria for holding a once-off lottery. Amendments Nos. 157, 158, 161, 162, 163, 166 and 167 are all technical amendments. Amendments Nos. 159 and 164 provide for the ability of the authority to determine how gambling activities may be provided by a licensee, where they may be provided from and if children are...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: These amendments are both technical. Amendment No. 121 corrected cross-references in section 97 while amendment No. 122 removed redundant language from this section.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: Amendments Nos. 140 to 142, inclusive, clarified the application process and criteria for holding a once-off lottery in a calendar year. Amendment No. 143 exempted certain premises from assessment by the authority. Amendments Nos. 144 to 153, inclusive, provided for the ability of the authority to issue or renew an in-person gambling licence, having assessed a premises, the details relating...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: 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...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: I thank the Deputy for his question. The original plan was to ban them altogether. We then had to make some exceptions for locations such as horse racing tracks, where people may take out money to buy food or whatever the case may be. If people want to have a machine on the premises, they will need to make a separate application to the authority. The authority will then take everything...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: The Attorney General has advised that we could not ban them for specific locations and nowhere else. That would be open to challenge. We had to take that into consideration. As I have said, I certainly do not want to see them in bookies' offices, casinos or anywhere like that. I have no difficulty with them being on racetracks or greyhound tracks, provided they are not in the betting...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: I propose to take amendments Nos. 115 to 120, inclusive, together. Amendments Nos. 115 to 118, inclusive, provide that, when assessing whether a premises is suitable to provide gambling activities from, the authority must consult with the relevant local fire safety authority where the premises is situated and must inspect the premises before making a determination in respect of a gambling...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: I will speak on these amendments together. The national lottery currently operates under the national lottery Act 2013. Its activities are regulated by the Office of the Regulator of the national lottery. This also includes extensive oversight of concerning the sale and supply of equipment to the holder of the licence to operate the national lottery and of its agents. In this context,...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: Amendments Nos. 77 to 84, inclusive, restructured, reorganised and clarified some of the language and terminology in section 83. In particular, amendment No. 84 reframed and moved the provisions of the then section 131 into section 83, referring to betting licences and for clarity and visibility to continue to allow the authority to prescribe what activities and events may not be the subject...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: We are satisfied that the current definition does, in fact, cover it.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: Amendment No. 62 relates to the social impact fund and inserts a new section into the Bill that provides for the possible refund of moneys transferred into the social impact fund from a licensee that transferred the balance on an account that had not been used for 13 months, and where the licensee, despite best efforts, could not make the refund to the account holder. The social impact fund...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: Given the alternative debt resolution procedures that have been introduced, such as personal insolvency arrangements for example, this amendment widened the grounds for ineligibility for appointment or retention as an officer of the authority to include any other arrangements or compositions with creditors. With regard to amendments Nos. 64, to 67, inclusive, on advice from the Office of...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: From the Seanad (16 Oct 2024)

James Browne: It relates to restrictions on the rights under data protection regulations and the Freedom of Information Act. Given the advice of the Attorney General it was considered that the provisions initially drafted were way too broad. As a result, the amendments were needed to reduce the application of that particular legislation as it applied to the Data Protection Act and the Freedom of...