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Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

James Browne: I am going to address this and make the point for a third time. The recommendation for a complete ban on gambling advertising during the watershed was the unanimous recommendation of the justice committee. Charities and sporting organisations have been governed by gambling legislation, when they are carrying out gambling activities such as lotteries and draws, for the past 70 years. Nearly...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

James Browne: With regard to the comment that no one requested it, it was requested unanimously by the Joint Committee on Justice that a ban on advertising be brought in with no exceptions. I listened to the members from the justice committee who have addressed it here in the Dáil. I have listened to TDs outside of the justice committee who have addressed it in this Chamber. I have listened to...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad I was here for the Minister of State's freagra earlier. I do not think he has any answers really. He is telling us that it came from the justice committee, and it did. God help the migration pact that is before the justice committee. Is the Minister of State telling me the justice committee unanimously came up with this without opposition or with no discussion? It is a very...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: I do not want to be confrontational or get into an argument. I sat in for some of the justice committee because my remit is addiction, recovery and well-being. It is very important that this Bill is right. At no stage did anyone feel - maybe I am wrong here - that this would affect sporting organisations and charities. That was never the intention. This was for the likes of Paddy Power,...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...going through that legislation and it took us a long time to get it right. That was only one piece of the Bill. The Minister of State needs to look at this issue. Perhaps we have to go back to the justice committee because we do not want to make a mistake with the legislation. These are now global companies and we do not want them to be able to find loopholes when the genuine...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

James Browne: It was a recommendation of the justice committee.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: People are saying it did not come from the justice committee and that this measure was never intended to be a part of the Bill. In my county of Tipperary, there is a hospice movement. I was recently at a fundraising venture that raised something like €200,000. That would not have happened if this restriction was in place. It would be outside the law and could not happen. The...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: First, I welcome the Minister of State's decision to bring forward amendments in the Seanad. This is a very important Bill. The reason it did not get the scrutiny it needed in the justice committee is that no one thought charities or sporting organisations would be covered. People view gambling as online gambling, betting shops and in-person gambling. They do not look at the GAA, sporting...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

James Browne: .... That is not a problem. The concern is that once a certain figure is exceeded, it will attract bad actors into the charity sector or sporting organisations. For example, someone might set up a darts club as a sports club, just to name it after a particular gambling organisation. We have been looking at that carefully and considering how to address it. The justice committee...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

James Browne: ...(3) of that Schedule, or both, having regard to—”. Section 82(2) of the Bill, as published and amended on Committee Stage, provides that the authority may, with the consent of the Minister for Justice, vary the maximum payment or winning limits in Schedule 2 to the Bill, having regard to the number of policies and principles. I now propose two technical amendments to...