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Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: I welcome the Minister of State. I also welcome to the House our friends and colleagues from AsIAm. I thank them for all their advocacy and help in preparing this report. Previous speakers rightly thanked Senator Carrigy for his work as Cathaoirleach of the committee. I do the same. At various meetings we had, we learned of the opposition there was to his setting up the committee in...

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: I join colleagues in sending condolences to the O'Rourke and Naughten families and I second Senator Sherlock's proposal regarding No. 12 on the Order Paper. In the last couple of weeks in particular, I have been contacted by a number of people who were affected by unplanned power outages in Kildare South. There seems to be a concentration of these outages in the Lackagh, Monasterevin and...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: I move amendment No. 17: In page 118, line 32, after “television,” to insert “personal gaming device,”.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: I move amendment No. 18: In page 121, line 10, to delete “or e-mail” and substitute “, e-mail or other form of push communication”.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: I move amendment No. 19: In page 125, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “Obligation to safeguard from excessive and compulsive gambling patterns 157. (1) Where a licensee to whom this Chapter applies becomes aware of a gambling pattern (in this section referred to as an “excessive or compulsive gambling pattern”) that suggests a participant is placing...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: Amendment No. 19 seeks to address an imbalance that we perceive in the Bill, which essentially places the lion’s share of the responsibility to keep a person safe from harm with the person himself or herself. While it is, of course, important that a person takes responsibility for gambling behaviour, gambling companies should also take proactive steps to keep their users safe from...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: I move amendment No. 21: In page 125, to delete lines 30 to 39, and in page 126, to delete lines 1 to 20 and substitute the following: “Obligation not to offer inducement to gamble 157. (1) A licensee to whom this Chapter applies shall not offer a benefit or advantage, the intent or effect of which is, either directly or indirectly, to encourage or maintain participation in...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: I move amendment No. 24: In page 129, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “(b) accept payment for a relevant gambling activity from an unregulated financial entities or unauthorised firms,”.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: I move amendment No. 25: In page 130, line 29, after “writing” to insert the following: “, including information about how the licensee, or any third party service provider, will gather, store and process the person’s personal data, and how this data is intended to be used”.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: I thank the Minister of State and welcome the fact he has re-examined section 157. It was the subject of much debate last week. Could the Minister of State detail the restrictions he introduced tonight? Will it be up to the regulator now to announce the restrictions or will they be part of the Bill? He has given us a definition but for me, it does not go far enough. I called for a ban on...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: Further to what Senator Ward has said, regarding amendments Nos. 200 and 201, as I understand it at the moment the application is made to the Garda Síochána. That has caused problems for certain charity groups and community groups. Will it still be done through the Garda Síochána or will the regulator take that on? Amendment No. 200 mentions a once-off lottery where...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: The Minister has clarified the situation regarding our amendment No. 241 and his amendment No. 240. I am happy with amendment No. 240.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: The reason many of us are here is the normalisation of gambling on sport by gambling companies and what they have done to influence so many people, a growing number of people in this country - one in 30 or 130,000 people - who now have a gambling addiction. One of the biggest issues those who have that gambling addiction mention when I talk to them is a free bet or an "inducement" as it is...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: I cannot believe one of the contributions tonight, because it is straight out of the gambling companies’ playbook as to why they should get free bet inducements. To suggest that should happen in this country when we have 130,000 people with a gambling addiction is wrong. Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but I have to say once again that this is a public health issue. I accept...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Provision (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: I, too, welcome the Minister of State to the House on what is a very busy day for her and everybody in Leinster House. I also thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting this Commencement matter. McCauley Court is a lovely development of ten units - ten houses and family homes - on the grounds of St. Vincent's Hospital in Athy. It is an issue I have followed for a number of years, probably since...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Provision (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: I appreciate the Minister of State's detailed response. She is correct that it is about delivery. I am aware that the Government has provided €900,000 for the upgrade of these homes and the provision of six new family homes and welcome that. However, when I visit these pensioners in their homes and see the mould coming out of the wall, I cannot accept that the HSE is delaying this...

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

Mark Wall: I move amendment No. 38: In page 21, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(6) For the avoidance of doubt, this Act applies to gambling activities carried on by, or on the premises of, a private members’ club in like manner as it applies to such activities carried on by, or on the premises of, any other natural or legal person or unincorporated body of...