Results 1-9 of 9 for lottery speaker:Rónán Mullen

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...within that industry. While I have questions to ask of the Minister of State, I thoroughly support efforts to tackle gambling. It is important to say that, as the ESRI report shows, the No. 1 place gambling is happening is the national lottery and the EuroMillions, followed by scratch cards in second place, horse racing in third and greyhound racing in fourth.This legislation does not...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...people waste their money. We live in a free society, and one does not want to overly restrict people in the use of their freedom, but when one sees people who cannot afford it spending too much on lottery tickets it is another example of how we go along with some practices and some market activities that really hurt people who are vulnerable in one way or another. Of course, I welcome...

Seanad: Gambling (Prohibition of Advertising) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...regularly offers inducements such as free bets, refunds, discounts and so on to attract and entrap new customers. These should be banned. We also need to address the advertising of the national lottery. I have spoken about this before. It has become all-pervasive. Virtually every ad break on RTÉ now has an ad for the lotto. This needs to be regulated and restricted because the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...it is a particular problem. We also know that it is a significant issue in the South. Senator Ward and others are to be commended for their Bill banning betting on the outcome of the national lottery, which proceeded last night, as is Senator Wall for his proposed Bill to restrict gambling advertising. However, there is a real danger that if we all say, as I am sure we all would, that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...Order Paper on the problem of gambling. One is Senator Wall’s Bill which would ban broadcast and non-broadcast advertising and then there is Senator Ward’s Bill which would ban betting on the national lottery. Both of those are very welcome. It was a happy coincidence that President Higgins took the unusual step at the weekend of issuing a statement reiterating his...

Seanad: Mental Health and Covid-19: Statements (12 Feb 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...problem gambling due to anxiety, unemployment or sheer want of something to fill their time. One man spoke bravely on the radio last year about how he had developed an addiction to the national lottery, a problem that is often overlooked and dismissed even though it is a form of gambling, albeit in aid of good causes. The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland recently called the gambling...

Seanad: Gambling Legislation: Motion (27 Feb 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...There is no reason to suspect there has not been gambling on this island for the same length of time. As everybody knows, Ireland has a history of funding projects from the proceeds of gambling. The sale of the national lottery was trumpeted as providing hundreds of millions of euro towards the building of the national children's hospital. That is ironic when one considers that the...

Seanad: Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (27 Feb 2013)

Rónán Mullen: ..., or how things would be perceived, would be part of the negotiations on any side. We also need to address the societal dimension. Can we examine the possibility of a contribution being made from lottery funding? A big part of this story was the failure of individual citizens at every level of society and within families, sometimes because they were vulnerable families themselves and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: ...needs. If there is a shortage of school places, then there will never be an easy way to determine who should be given a place when a school hits its maximum enrolment and matters come down to a lottery. In such circumstances, somebody will lose out and he or she will have legitimate grounds for complaint. There is a need to consider how we might provide resources into the future in...