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Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: We are at the end of a grouping of some 21 amendments, Nos. 75 to 96, inclusive. It is the eleventh grouping of 28 in the list we have. The groupings are obviously hugely helpful to allow us to move on. However, given that mistakes were made today by people who did not realise where subsequent amendments were part of a group, if it would make more sense for the groups to be numbered, at...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: I have no problem with the list but it is bullet points. The groups are not identiable one from the other except by the name. If one could refer to group A, B or C or group 9 or whatever it is it would be easier because it is quite difficult to navigate.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 113: In page 56, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: "(4)(a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as conferring any authorisation or entitlement on a person licensed under this Act to provide a gambling activity on the National Lottery, held on behalf of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, under the...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: I understand where the Minister of State is coming from. However, although this Bill comes under his remit, and I acknowledge the enormous volume of work that he has done on it as well as within the Department to bring it here, it affects every Department and its success affects every Department. I understand what he said. He started out by saying that we cannot guarantee that the money...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: If he is willing to put my Bill through, we will get it done.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: Is that an expression of support for the Bill?

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: I have one more question, as to whether these three specific amendments were brought to the attention of the Department and whether it has considered them or whether that is yet to happen.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 114: In page 56, line 3, to delete “or (3)” and substitute “, (3) or (4)”.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 115: In page 56, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “Amendment of the National Lottery Act 2013 66. The national lottery Act 2013 is amended as follows: (a) In section 2 by the insertion of the following definitions: “ ‘bet’ shall have the meaning assigned to it by section 1 of the Betting Act 1931; ‘betting...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: It almost seems as if this might be something outside the Minister of State's remit given the reference to the national lottery. I cannot help thinking that these amendments do not impact directly on the national lottery but impact upon the companies who will be regulated by this Bill. This is in exactly the same way that I was proposing in my amendments earlier that would have an impact on...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 121: In page 64, to delete lines 24 to 37, and in page 65, to delete lines 1 to 9 and substitute the following: “ “maximum relevant payment and maximum winnings” means such amount or amounts set by the Authority, with the consent of the Minister, in regulations made under subsection (2) of section 81;”. Amendment No. 121 refers to...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: I dtús báire, gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as an sárobair atá déanta aige agus a fhoireann ar an mBille seo. Feicim gur éist siad leis na daoine a bhí ag labhairt faoi na fadhbanna a raibh acu leis an mBille. Tá mé thar a bheith buíoch de as ucht na leasuithe atá déanta ag an Rialtas. Tá mé ag tnúth go...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: Yes, on the section.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: Does section 1 contain the definitions? Perhaps I should come in on section 2.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: It is not.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: I want to specifically speak to amendment No. 37, which proposes to insert a new subsection (4) into section 2 to amend the definition, or rather, to make reference to the definition of a "relevant payment", specifically in paragraph (c) of that definition. This is important, because in the course of the amendments to the Bill, there is reference to bingo-type offerings and games. Amendment...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Barry Ward: It is in reference to that, because this interpretation, as the Acting Chair will be aware, governs the entirety of the Act, including Schedule 2, which is being amended by amendment No. 340. I have not tabled an amendment to this effect but is it something to which the Minister of State could give consideration on Report Stage?

Seanad: Nithe i dTosach Suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legal Aid (9 Jul 2024)

Barry Ward: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. This is an important issue. This morning, I stood in the rain outside the Criminal Courts of Justice with my colleagues at the criminal Bar to demonstrate the importance of this issue. The reality is that cuts were made to the criminal legal aid scheme in the aftermath of the financial emergency in this country.Nobody had a difficulty...

Seanad: Nithe i dTosach Suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legal Aid (9 Jul 2024)

Barry Ward: I appreciate the Minister of State’s sincerity in this regard, and what she said about recognising the importance of legal representatives and the role played by solicitors and barristers. I confess, having spoken to them outside the courts this morning, that they do not feel that importance is recognised and if a further withdrawal of services is to be avoided, there is a very simple...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2024)

Barry Ward: I join with colleagues in expressing my condolences to the family of John O'Mahony.I knew John, not from in here, but from politics certainly. Both he and my father were from Ballaghaderreen. He was a gentleman and somebody who was very understated in terms of his achievements and what he had done. I greatly regret hearing the news this week and I pass on my sympathies to his family. Ar...